African Voices Changemakers, the 30-minute magazine programme of the Cable News Network (CNN) International, which is sponsored by telecommunications giant, Globacom, will this week bring two international athletes to the center stage.
They are 23-year-old Nigerian-American, Uche Eke, a graduate with honours in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, the United States of America, and 24-year-old Joshua Cheptegei, a Ugandan serial medalist in athletics who is mentoring young compatriots from his country through his social empowerment foundation named after himself.
Eke who has his eyes on Olympic medals won Nigeria’s first-ever gold medal on pommel horse and a bronze medal on parallel bars at the 2019 All-African Games held in Morocco. The youngster encourages more youth to embrace gymnastics as a sport which has the potential to help young people to build character, attitudes and habits that can have positive influence their future.
A member of the Ugandan National Police, Cheptegei has enjoyed a sterling career in athletics, parading a string of medals. He is a 2019 world champion in the 10,000 meters race and set a world record as the tenth man in history to hold the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters world records concurrently in 2020.
He had earlier set another world record for the 15 km road race, becoming the cross country world champion in 2019, having set yet another record in the 10 km road race in Valencia, Spain, the same year. Cheptegi had in 2017 clinched a silver medal in the 10,000 meters event at the London World Championship in London.
The star athletes will be on African Voices Changemakers on the DSTV Channel 401 on Saturday at 9.30 a.m. Repeats of the programme will be broadcast on Sunday at 4.30 a.m., 7.30 a.m., 12.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.; on Monday at 4 a.m. and in two 15-minute parts on Tuesday at 6.45 p.m. and on Wednesday at 6.45 p.m.
