Adesewa Josh

Adesewa Hannah Ogunleyimu (born October 11, 1985) known professionally as Adesewa Josh, is a Nigerian broadcast journalist who covers both national and international news for TRT World. Previously she was a correspondent at Channels TV from 2012 to 2017.

Quotes

• A huge part of any storytelling process is the newsgathering. A slight misstep in newsgathering can distort the facts in a subtle but substantial way. That’s why the best way to capture the essence of a story is to allow the people at the heart of it drive it.
  • Adesewa on storytelling in 2020
• When mothers weep for their departed beloved, what’s primarily stirring their tears is life without a pay check, enough to cater for the kids.
  • Adesewa spoke on mothers in 2020
• Years of undercurrent family feud automatically lock many women and children out of their rightful inheritance.
  • Adesewa spoke on inheritance in 2020
• Wrong narratives imprison the subject of a story and anyone or anything associated with it. It can negatively affect a wide range of social interactions from interpersonal relations to business associations.
  • Adesewa on wrong narratives in 2020
• We as Africans must tell our own stories too. No one else can do it better.
  • Adesewa on Africans in 2020
• Think of it as a last minute effort to correct generations of social policies and constructs that robbed women and girls the opportunity to get education, to vote, work, to earn equitably, to own properties and the likes.
  • Adesewa on advocating for girls in 2020
• What is news? Anything out of the ordinary.
  • Adesewa on what news entails in 2020
• After all, speaking truth to power is one of the hallmarks of good journalism.
  • Adesewa on hallmarks of journalism in 2022
• For so long, Africans were not the raconteur of their own stories. That has resulted in skewed nuances and narratives of the continent’s stories.
  • Adesewa on stories of african in 2020