Media Career

In his vast media career, Stephen Mhando served as the managing editor of the TANU newspapers, Sauti Ya TANU, the Nationalist, Uhuru, and later of the trade union weekly, Mfanyakazi (‘The Worker’). He also became the first African executive editor of the independent newspaper, Ngurumo. Ngurumo was owned by the Thaker family and was one of the most popular newspapers in Tanganyika in the 1960s, with a very wide circulation.

He would continue to write intermittently for many other national and international publications throughout his life. Stephen Mhando mentored his sister, Catherine Mhando and nephew Fred Jim Mdoe, who both became prominent international journalists. Catherine Mhando and Fred Jim Mdoe both worked for BBC World Service, Swahili Service in London, United Kingdom.