Susan linnee nairobi biography

Susan Linnee (April 25, 1942 – November 6, 2017) was an American journalist who served as an Associated Press bureau chief in Madrid and Nairobi.
Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Linnee grew up in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park, where she worked on the school newspaper.
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St. Louis Park High School Class of 1960 graduate Susan Linnee is a distinguished journalist who has worked in some of the most remote parts of the world.

Susan showed an interest in both journalism and foreign affairs while at Park High. In all three years she worked on the staff of the Echo: in her junior year she was co-editor of Page 2, and in her senior year she was the assistant managing editor. Also in her senior year she was chosen for a student exchange program with the American Field Service and spent part of the year in France.

Susan’s professional journalism career started in Buenos Aires, where she became a radio stringer after the chief correspondent had to have open heart surgery. One of the stories was about the return of the embalmed body of Eva Peron (she died in 1953) to Argentina in 1974 when her husband Juan Peron was briefly president. NBC News had misunderstood and asked whether Susan could get an interview with Eva Peron! Susan began working for the Associated Press in Buenos Aires. Back in those days she was married to a diplomat who worke

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Susan Linnee, who rose from a radio stringer in Latin America to become a groundbreaking Associated Press bureau chief in Madrid and Nairobi, has died. She was 75.

Linnee, who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, died Monday morning at Walker Methodist Care Suites in Edina, Minnesota, after spending about a month in hospice care, according to her brother, Paul Linnee.

Linnee became one of the news organization's first female American bureau chiefs overseas when she was named AP's Madrid bureau chief in 1982. In 1996, she became Nairobi bureau chief, where she shepherded AP's coverage of major news in Africa, including the spread of terrorists into Somalia, the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, and the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Former colleagues remember Linnee for her hardworking ethic, dedication to her staff and empathy for ordinary people caught up in world events.

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Publishing Perspectives

The Ugandan International Writers Conference revealed a wide-variety of new initiatives aimed at elevating the professionalism of African writing.

By Susan Linnee

Susan Linnee

That African writing is alive and well—both on the continent and in the diaspora—was not in doubt at the 2nd edition of the Uganda International Writers Conference in Kampala in March. But what does concern the several dozen participants, particularly organizer Goretti Kyomuhendo, is how to get it edited, published, distributed—and sold.

Kyomuhendo, an Ugandan who has several novels published and is the author of The Essential Handbook for African Creative Writers, founded the African Writers Trust in 2009 in part to address the problems of editing and publishing. More than a decade earlier as a founding member of FEMWRITE, the Uganda Women Writers Association and publishing house, she coordinated their training programs for writers. Now, in addition to writers, she is concentrating on editors and publishers—but there are not many.

In 2010 AWT organized two workshops in U