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Top 20 Award-Winning African Journalists

The advancement of news casting in Africa has brought about revealing that has set the news plan and uncovered worries that have recently slipped through the cracks by the traditional press. Significantly under the best of conditions, filling in as a columnist in Africa has special obstacles.

In any case, writers all through the mainland keep on finding new strategies to serve their watchers, constantly creating a large number of extraordinary stories. In this article, we talk about the top 20 award-winning African journalists.

1. Barbara Among

Barbara Among is an Uganda-based independent columnist. She has composed on the Incomparable Lakes locale’s contention, legislative issues, business, common liberties, and psychological warfare. She likewise distributes articles on well-being and the climate. She has composed for Uganda’s public Everyday Screen and New Vision papers, and her work is presently distributed in the East African Day today. Her composing has additionally been highlighted in the Gatekeeper (UK), Spectator (UK), Autonomous (UK), Reuters, and Kenya’s Everyday Country paper. Among is a beneficiary of the renowned David Astor News coverage Grant as well as the Uganda Insightful Reporting Grant.

2. Sonja Smith

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Sonja Smith is an award-winning writer situated in Namibia, a Middle for Cooperative Insightful News-casting part, and a reporter for the Related Press. She has worked for different Namibian media distributions including Confidente, Windhoek Spectator, and The Namibian. At the 2021 Editors Type of Namibia Reporting Grants, she was granted Columnist of the Year.

3.Ntibinyane Ntibinyane

Ntibinyane is a writer from Botswana and a prime supporter of the INK Place for Analytical Reporting, a philanthropic media source that does analytical news-casting in the public interest. His fundamental areas of interest incorporate unlawful monetary streams, defilement, administration, and the double-crossing of public trust. His analytical work has additionally been perceived in Botswana and somewhere else all over the planet. In 2016, he was important for more than 300 columnists that chipped away at the Panama Papers as a team with the Worldwide Consortium of Analytical Writers (ICIJ). That group later got a Pulitzer Prize for Informative Revealing. In 2013, he got the Media Organization of Southern Africa Analytical Writer of the Year grant.

4. Khadija Sharife

Situated in South Africa, grant-winning insightful columnist Khadija Sharife is a senior manager for Africa at the Abroad Wrongdoing and Debasement Revealing Venture. With an emphasis on worldwide unlawful monetary streams, political economy, and ecological predation, Khadija has added to examinations about unlawful signing in Madagascar, fabulous debasement in Angola, and ware merchants powering arms dealing with Cote d’Ivoire. She is the previous head of Stage for the Insurance of Informants and is a board individual from Money Uncovered.

5. Anas Aremeyaw Anas

Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a covert columnist, lawyer, and investigator working in Ghana and across Africa. He is the lead columnist for Africa Researches, a narrative series on Al Jazeera. In camouflage, he tracks down his direction into havens, whorehouses, detainment facilities, halfway houses, and towns, where he deliberately assembles proof for criminal arraignment. In 2008, the U.S. State Division gave him its Legend Grant, for his work uncovering an illegal exploitation ring in Western Africa.

6. Khanyi Dhlomo

Dhlomo was brought into the world in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, the little girl of Oscar Dhlomo She went to class at Durban Young ladies’ School, in Durban, while there she won the Thandi Face Beauty queen rivalry at 16 years old, which started her advantage in media. She concentrated on news-casting at the College of Witwatersrand.

She has been granted the Benefits Magazine Manager of the Year in 2019 and the Most Powerful Lady in South African Media in 2003.

7. Sonny Serite

Sonny Serite holds a four-year certification in liberal arts degree in reporting from Limkokwing College and is at present seeking a Bosses in Media Studies certification at the College of Botswana. He began his vocation as an independent writer, adding to The Week by week Free as an editorialist. In 2011, Serite was named for the esteemed CNN/Multichoice African Columnist of the Year grant. Serite’s elite scoops remember a significant story of defiled water and an examination concerning the securing of faulty rail route mentors.

8. Aisha Salaudeen

Aisha Salaudeen, conceived on 26 September 1994, is a Nigerian mixed-media columnist, women’s activist, maker, and essayist who presently works with CNN. In November 2020, she was granted the What’s to come Grants Africa Prize for News coverage for her work covering stories in Africa. She was a visitor speaker at the Ake Expressions and Book Celebration 2020.

9.Jeremiah Fisayo Bambi

Jeremiah Fisayo Bambi is a Nigerian columnist, maker, news essayist, commentator and show have on Africanews and Euronews. Bambi was a shortlisted competitor of the BBC Komla Dumor Grant and was a possibility for the Nigeria Achievers Grants 2020 television character of the year.

10. Andiswa Matikinca

Andiswa Matikinca is an honor-winning analytical columnist who is likewise a partner at Oxpeckers Analytical Ecological News-casting, a spearheading unit for natural detailing in Africa utilizing information reporting and bleeding edge geo-story stages. She was granted the Vodacom Territorial Youthful Columnist Grant for the KwaZulu-Natal district in 2019.

11. Catherine Gicheru

Catherine Gicheru is a veteran insightful supervisor and computerized specialist. She shares her experiences all around the world as an ICFJ Knight Individual. Catherine was a Reuter’s Individual at Oxford College, where she concentrated on how computerized development and interruption are changing metro media across sub-Saharan Africa. An exploring columnist, Gicheru was the establishing manager in-head of the Star paper, presently the third-biggest and quickest developing paper in Kenya.
In 1992, she was granted the Global Ladies’ Media Establishment’s Boldness in News-casting Grant and has been referred to by WikiLeaks for her valiant examination of debasement and state-supported brutality despite dangers and terrorizing.

12. Fiona Macleod

Fiona Macleod is the pioneer behind Oxpeckers Community for Analytical Natural News-casting, Africa’s most memorable editorial examination unit zeroing in on ecological issues. Preceding establishing Oxpeckers, Macleod functioned as an honor-winning columnist and supervisor at a scope of the district’s top media, including the Mail&Guradian, Earthyear, and Local magazines. Macleod filled in as an ecological proofreader at the Mail&Guardian paper for quite a long time and got the esteemed Scratch Steele Grant for her covering natural preservation. She has likewise altered a few books, including Your Manual for Green Living, A Common agreement: The Way Forward, and Battling for Equity.

13. Tabelo Timse

Tablo Timse is an insightful columnist for amaBhungane. She has a reporting graduate degree from Nelson Mandela College. Her news-casting vocation started as a television correspondent and radio current undertakings maker at the SABC territorial office in Port Elizabeth, however later concluded her enthusiasm was for paper media. In 2021, she was granted the Franco-German Award for Basic liberties and Law and order. 

14. Ruona J. Meyer

Ruona J. Meyer, previously called Ruona Agbroko and Ruona Agbroko-Meyer is a Nigerian insightful writer. She was named Analytical Columnist of 2013 in Nigeria. Her work has been included on the BBC, 234Next, Monetary Times, Reuters, Day to day Trust, This Day, and others. She is the primary Nigerian columnist to be assigned for a Global Emmy Grant.

15. Solomon Serwanjja

Solomon Serwanjja is a Ugandan insightful writer and the Chief Head of the African Establishment for Analytical News-casting. On 13 July 2021, he left his situation as anchorperson with NBSTV finishing his long-term profession on TV. In 2019 Serwanjja was granted the Komla Dumor Grant, a yearly honor given by the BBC to observe African columnists. He holds an expert’s Degree in News-casting and Correspondence from Makerere College.

16. Larry Madowo

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Larry Madowo is a Kenyan writer and a CNN Worldwide Journalist. He was beforehand a North America Journalist for the BBC and secured letting it be known and introduced BBC World News America from Washington, DC. He was a 2019-20 Knight-Bagehot Individual in Financial matters and Business Reporting at Columbia College in New York and the BBC Africa Business Supervisor until 2019. He has been a beneficiary of the 2019 Relationship of Worldwide Telecom Grants as well as the Philip Greer Grant for Monetary Composition.

17. Komla Afeke Dumor

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Komla Afeke Dumor was a Ghanaian writer who worked for BBC World News and was the principal moderator of its program Spotlight on Africa. Dumor began as the morning show for Happiness FM in Accra, Ghana. In 2003, he was granted Columnist of the Year given by the Ghana Writers Affiliation. Dumor kicked the bucket on 18 January 2014 in his Hertfordshire, Britain home after a heart failure, having been on the air the other day. He was lauded by the Ugandan president as a gift to the world.

18.Donato Francisco Mattera

Donato Francisco Mattera, otherwise called Wear Mattera, was a South African writer and writer. He helped structure the Association of Dark Columnists as well as the Congress of South African Scholars. In 2006 he was granted the South African Request of the Baobab in Gold for “Superb commitment to writing, accomplishment in the field of news-casting and taking a stab at a vote-based system and equity in South Africa.”

19. Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye

Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye is a Nigerian manager, columnist, and by, and by the head of language administrations (West Africa) at BBC World Help. She was the previous Sunday proofreader of The Punch Paper. She is likewise a Mandela Washington Individual. Ogunseye has won various media grants including the wellbeing class of the CNN MultiChoice African Columnist of the Year Grants in 2011 and 2013, Nigerian Foundation of Science Writer of the Year 2013, What’s in store Grants Africa 2013, Kid Amicable Journalist of the Year by the Precious stone Honors for Media Greatness.

20. Latashia Naidoo

Latashia Naidoo is an award-winning South African columnist and manager whose profession has crossed print, broadcast, and online media, both locally and universally. 

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