I am a Sierra Leonean born on the 27th of May 1972. I attended the Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School in Freetown, where I sat to the GCE O Level upon the completion of my high school. I later entered the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology, where I graduated with a Diploma in Community Development Studies in 2002. I started working with a community Radio Citizen FM 103.7 established the same year (2002) in a community called Kissy as a reporter. I went through a lot of in-house training in journalism and attended international training programmes and conferences including the December 2003 Common Wealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Abuja Nigeria. At citizen I produce and present both the then magazine programme “Current Issues” and women’s Programme “Woman Corner” (30 minutes each) and later worked as news editor.

I was later employed by the International Human Rights League in USA in its Voice of Youths Project based in Sierra Leone then managed by the Center for Media Education and Technology (C-Met), as a Journalist Trainer from June2005 to February 2006. Among my duties were to train youth journalists in basic broadcasting skills to enable them report and package youth related Programmes; update the website where these programmes are normally sent with the then website address of www.voiceofyouths.org and write a monthly report on the activities of the youth journalists to the League. I later left to further my studies in journalism to satisfy the passion I had developed for the profession, when the project phased out in February 2006.

I entered the Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone in the 2006/2007 academic year to read for a degree in Mass Communication in the Mass Communication Department of the University. I was fortunate to be one of the employees of Fondation Hirondelle in its Cotton Tree News Project in Sierra Leone as one of its journalists in February 2007. I am proud to be one of those that started the project. At CTN I report, read news and produce and present the programme “My Visit” with the popular name of Fatmata Dainkeh as opposed to my full name of Fatmata Dainkeh Kargbo. I am also one of the casts of the newly introduced drama “Mammy and Omo”. I will be an honours (one) student by October 2008 when the university reopens. And because of my status as a student in the university, I have been a beneficiary of the internship opportunity CTN provided for students to Star Radio in Monrovia Liberia in September 2007. Among my hobbies are reading and travelling.