Photograph by Jeff Elkins
Kojo Nnamdi first hit the DC airwaves back when he was managing an activist bookstore. Now, a half century after starting his career at Howard University’s radio station covering the global Black diaspora, he’s retiring as host of a WAMU show that’s synonymous with hyper-local coverage. How did a young radical from Guyana become the guy we go to for reasonable conversation about area development controversies and transportation debates?
With
The Kojo Nnamdi Show set to end in April (he’ll continue to host
The Politics Hour on Fridays), the man formerly known as Rex Paul allowed us to turn the microphone around and interview him about the one Washington institution that’s rarely analyzed on the show: Nnamdi himself.
Kojo Nnamdi, long-running D.C. radio host, is retiring from daily show after 23 years
Paul Farhi, The Washington Post
Jan. 13, 2021
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Kojo Nnamdi hosting his WAMU-FM radio show in 2011.Washington Post photo by Sarah L. Voisin
WASHINGTON - Kojo Nnamdi, a fixture on Washington s radio airwaves and an influential factor in the region s politics, will retire from his daily program on WAMU-FM, the public station announced Wednesday.
Nnamdi, 76, will continue to host his Friday program about local politics, The Politics Hour and irregular Kojo in the Community special live panel programs, but will step down from daily broadcasts in April.