ATLANTA – To feed her wanderlust and launch a reporting career, Akilah Amapindi signed on in July 2004 as a Namibian Broadcasting Corporation intern, a stint that would let her get acquainted with her father in his homeland.
The 2004 graduate of Ohio’s Kenyon College wound up anchoring the network’s 5pm news bulletin several times, a rare achievement for a fledgling journalist. When the internship ended, Amapindi enlisted as a photographer’s assistant for the film ‘Where Others Wavered’ on the life of Namibia’s founding president Sam Nujoma.Amapindi contracted malaria towards the end of her stay in Africa, according to her mother, Unnah Harper.She died early on Sunday at a hospital in Atlanta.Harper said her daughter was eager to travel to Namibia so she could get to know her father, John Amapindi, whom she first met four years ago.- The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWhen the internship ended, Amapindi enlisted as a photographer’s assistant for the film ‘Where Others Wavered’ on the life of Namibia’s founding president Sam Nujoma.Amapindi contracted malaria towards the end of her stay in Africa, according to her mother, Unnah Harper.She died early on Sunday at a hospital in Atlanta.Harper said her daughter was eager to travel to Namibia so she could get to know her father, John Amapindi, whom she first met four years ago.- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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