Bakari Machumu

Mr. Bakari joined Mwananchi Communications Ltd (MCL) - a subsidiary of NMG in Tanzania - in July 2004 as the first Business Editor of The Citizen newspaper. He started his journalism career at the then leading financial and business newspaper in Tanzania, Business Times, as a Trainee Business Journalist, fresh from college, in 1998, growing to become a Senior Reporter, Features Editor of the same, and News Editor of Daily Times by 2004. Bakari is the longest serving Managing Editor of The Citizen, MCL’d English daily, having managed it from May 2006 to July 2013, where he was appointed Group Managing Editor/ Executive Editor of MCL, a position he served for seven years to July 2020. He has transited from the newsroom to managing MCL business as its Managing Director to-date. A journalist, an Editor and a learner, Bakari lead by strategic thinking. He has experience in business dynamics, embraces flexibility, adaptability and believes in evolution of thought. Bakari holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture General, (Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania); an MBA (Eastern’ Southern Africa Management Institute - Esami) and Masters in Media Leadership and Innovation (The Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communication, Kenya).