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Mawunyo Gbogbo
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Mawunyo Gbogbo

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Mawunyo Gbogbo is an ABC journalist specialising in popular culture, and the author of Hip Hop & Hymns.


She has worked as a music and pop culture reporter for Double J and ABC News, a journalist for ABC NewsRadio; a features reporter and producer for ABC Radio Sydney; a segment producer for the Today show on the Nine Network; and an associate producer for Insight on SBS TV, where she won a UN Media Peace Award.


Mawunyo was born in Ghana, raised in Muswellbrook in the NSW Hunter Valley, and now calls Sydney home.

Books by Mawunyo Gbogbo

Hip Hop & Hymns

A memoir of loving hard, falling apart and fighting back, set to an unrivalled playlist.

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