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| Name | Mansoor Ladha |
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| Location | Calgary, Alberta |
| Biography | Mansoor Ladha an award-winning journalist has held senior editorial positions with daily and weekly newspapers in East Africa and Canada. He has worked as Features Editor of The Standard now Daily News in Dar es Salaam Tanzania and as copy editor with the Daily nation Sunday Nation in Nairobi Kenya.In Canada he was publisher of the Morinville Mirror and the Redwater Tribune for 25 years. Prior to that he worked as a copy editor with the Edmonton Journal. |
| Publications | Mansoor has published a book entitled A Portrait in Pluralism: Aga Khan's Shia Ismaili Muslims to mark the Aga Khan's Golden Jubilee in 2008. The Aga Khan is the spiritual leader of the world's 15 million Ismaili Shia Muslims.Mansoor Ladha was one of several Alberta journalists scholars and writers invited to contribute about their experiences in Canada and creating life in Alberta. His chapter called Canadian Experience is published in the book The Story That Brought Me Here published by Brindle Glass and edited by Linda Gpyette.Mansoor is now working on a memior about a brown person living ina black society in Africa and later on the same brown person moving to a white society Canada and what challenges he faces. |
| Awards | Awarded Commonwealth scholarship to study advanced journalism at Cardiff Wales by Lord Thomson of Fleet Street.Bestowed Citizen of the Year by the Town of Morinville. In 2011, was awarded the Silver Quill Award by the Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association for his distinguished service to newspapers. |
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