Esau Williams
| Esau Williams | |
|---|---|
| File:EsauWilliamsWikipedia.jpgEsauWilliamsWikipedia.jpg Williams in 2024 | |
| Born | |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Southern Methodist University Royal Holloway King's College London |
| 💼 Occupation | Civil servant, journalist, presenter |
| Notable work | BBC Focus on Africa |
Esau Geoffrey Williams is a civil servant, journalist, and broadcaster.[1][2]
Education
Esau Williams is a graduate of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas (BA, Philosophy); Royal Holloway, University of London (BA (Hons), Politics with Philosophy); and King's College London (MA, International Political Economy).
Career
Williams is a former presenter of Focus on Africa, the BBC World Service's flagship news and current affairs radio programme.[3][4][5]
He anchored a special series of guest-edited Focus on Africa programmes featuring prominent Africans, including Professor Thuli Madonsela, law professor and the first female Public Protector of South Africa.[6]
In 2021, he was sent to cover the Gambian presidential election for the BBC,[7][8] where he interviewed Ghana's then former president, John Mahama who was in The Gambia as an election observer at the time.
Williams is an expert on the politics of The Gambia[9] and has written and commented on the subject for the BBC.[10][11]
He has also interviewed the former British prime minister Sir Tony Blair on the BBC World Service in 2021 about the challenges facing Africa caused by the Delta variant of the Corona Virus, and Sir Tony’s advocacy for an increase in the availability of COVID vaccines to the continent.[12]
He occasionally writes opinion pieces on British politics for the History News Network at George Washington University;[13] Inside Sources;[14] and the SMU Blog.[15]
Williams trains journalists at the Media Academy for Journalism and Communication in The Gambia,[16][17][18] and twice served as chair of the panel of judges for the National Journalism Awards in The Gambia.[19][20]
In the autumn of 2024, he was appointed as the new host of the podcast, WORLD: we got this with Esau Williams,[2] produced by the School of Global Affairs at King's College London.[21]
Awards
Williams presented the daily News About Ebola programme[22] which won a Peabody Award for the BBC World Service for coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.[23]
References
- ↑ "Esau Williams - Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, SMU". smu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 London, King's College. "Ex-BBC man comes full circle as new podcast host". King's College London. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "Esau Williams leaves the BBC - The Point". thepoint.gm. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
- ↑ "BBC World Service Partners". wspartners.bbc.com. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "The media caricature of Hugo Chávez". africasacountry.com. 2025-07-02. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
- ↑ "Focus on Africa - Guest editor: Professor Thuli Madonsela - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "Focus on Africa - Esau Williams - The soaring price of fish in The Gambia - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
- ↑ "Focus on Africa - Esau Williams - Spectre of former president Jammeh looms over Gambia's elections - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
- ↑ "Esau Williams deplores plunder of Covid-19 funds, lays bare govt's corruption, lack of credibility". Gunjur Online. 2020-09-10. Retrieved 2025-07-01.
- ↑ "Esau Williams - Why is Yahya Jammeh causing such a stir in Gambia?". BBC News. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "Esau Williams - Gambian leader visits Eq Guinea". BBC News. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "Focus on Africa - Esau Williams - Africa now faces a perfect storm - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ Williams, Esau (2019-07-31). "All the world's a stage when you're Boris Johnson basking in the no-deal-Brexit spotlight". History News Network. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ Williams, Esau (2019-05-26). "BBC Reporter Educated in U.S. Frames the "Brutal" Brexit Exit of Theresa May". InsideSources. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "BBC Journalist Educated in U.S. Frames the "Brutal" Brexit Exit of Theresa May". Opinions. 2019-07-12. Archived from the original on 2025-02-18. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "BBC Journalist Concludes Three-Day Training for Students in Gambia". www.grts.gm. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "BBC's Esau Williams trains journalism students - The Point". thepoint.gm. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ MAJaC TV (2023-04-03). BBC's Esau Williams trains MAJaC Students. Retrieved 2025-06-30 – via YouTube.
- ↑ thevoice (2021-09-07). "Education system has failed - Chairperson GPU Awards -". Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ Times, The Alkamba (2022-10-16). "National Journalism Awards Committee Announces Judges for 2022". The Alkamba Times. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "WORLD: we got this with Esau Williams | Feature from King's College London". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "BBC World Service - News About Ebola, News About Ebola Bulletin". BBC. Retrieved 2025-07-01.
- ↑ "Ebola". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2025-07-01.
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