(17 Apr 2025)
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Nairobi, Kenya – 17 April 2025
1. Various of mourners lining up outside University of Nairobi Chiromo funeral home parlour
2. Close of t-shirt with picture of dead Nigerian content moderator Ladi Anzaki Olubunmi, reading (English) "Rest well Anzaki"
3. Wide of mourners entering funeral parlour for service
4. Various of service inside funeral parlour
5. Close of portrait of Olubunmi
6. Various of mourners singing hymns
7. Various of mourners and service
8. Various of coffin being wheeled into hearse, hearse leaving
9. Setup shot of colleague Tawheed Yaya Yakubu at grave site at Langata cemetery
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tawheed Yaya Yakubu, colleague:
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"She had disappointment with management of Teleperformers because (she’s) someone who had been requesting on different occasions to be allowed to travel home, and was being given different excuses like not adequate balance on work permit. I mean, these are not excuses that should be coming from the management, things like no work permit. Employees should not be doing getting work permit for themselves."
11. Wide of workers working at grave site
12. Mourners viewing body of Olubunmi
13. Various of mourners shovelling soil to cover grave
STORYLINE:
The funeral was held on Thursday for a Kenya-based Nigerian content moderator who died in unclear circumstances last month.
Ladi Anzaki Olubunmi’s decomposed remains were found on March 7 at her apartment on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, three days after she failed to show up at work.
Among the mourners was her elder brother, who travelled to Nairobi for the emotional ceremony.
He was overcome by grief as friends and colleagues eulogized Olubunmi as “selfless.”
Olubunmi, 43, who was employed as a TikTok content moderator subcontracted by a global outsourcing firm, Teleperformance, had complained of fatigue before her death, the cause of which has not been revealed.
She had been living in Kenya since 2022 and only managed to travel back home once, despite having an annual return ticket benefit in her employment contract.
Colleagues said she was “desperate to go home” but was denied leave.
Teleperformance Kenya said in a statement in March that she wasn’t denied leave to travel home.
In a tribute, a company spokesperson described Olubunmi as “a selfless, compassionate and deeply caring individual.”
Content moderators working for subcontracted firms based in Kenya have in the past described working conditions that they say include lower than average pay, lack of mental health support, long working hours and intimidation.
More than 100 former Facebook content moderators have sued the social media company over what they say is poor pay and working conditions and unfair termination of employment.
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