Belinda Otas

Belinda Otas is a versatile journalist, writer, cultural critic and an independent blogger. She has a passionate interest in Africa: politics, social development, arts and culture, gender issues and the African diaspora. Currently working as a freelance journalist with various publications aimed at the international community – she has contributed to: Al Jazeera, CNN, BBC News Online, The Africa Report, Selamta, New African, Wings, Divascribe, Zam and Under The Influence magazines, Think Africa Press and This Is Africa, among others. For these various publications, she covers politics, social development, gender, health and education stories, fashion and the arts and culture. Belinda is also a news and social commentator on Monocle Radio’s – The Globalist on African affairs and has appeared on the BBC World Service NewsDay programme.