4 Sep 2015

Winnie Byanyima: Oxfam's first African Director

From Nine To Noon, 10:08 am on 4 September 2015
Winnie Byanyima.

Winnie Byanyima. Photo: Alex Baker Photography 2014

Winnie Byanyima is the first African director of Oxfam, with an incredible life story. As a teenager she fled to the UK from Idi Amin's Uganda. From next to nothing she went on to get a degree in aeronautical engineering, become a Ugandan MP, work with the UN and is now the first African director of the charity Oxfam.

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