A Nigerian Journalist, Aanu Adeoye has joined the Financial Times (FT) as the West Africa Correspondent based in Lagos.
His appointment was announced by the Africa Editor of FT, David Pilling @davidpilling in a tweet on August 1
Pilling wrote: “Thrilled to announce that @aanuadeoye is joining as our new West Africa Correspondent based in Lagos. Please welcome him to the @FT & to one of the most exciting jobs in journalism”.
While responding to the tweet, Adeoye wrote: “Some news, this: I’m joining the @FT as West Africa correspondent with an eye on Nigeria and the ECOWAS region. I’m heading out to Lagos soon to get started”.
“If you work in politics, finance, economics and business, foreign affairs, and technology in West Africa, I’m open to tips, secrets and miscellaneous stuff,” he stated.
Earlier, in a pinned tweet on December 13, 2021, Adeoye had written that he hoped his next job in journalism would be in print. “I hope my next job in journalism is at a newspaper or magazine for the simple reason that I *still* love reading stuff in print”.
Adeoye is a Mo Ibrahim Foundation Academy Fellow with the Russia-Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in London.
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He had been in Johannesburg as news editor of ‘The Continent’, the digital pan-African newsweekly designed to be read and shared on messaging apps.
His writings have appeared in the Guardian, CNN, Mail & Guardian, Vice, Foreign Policy, Al-Jazeera and elsewhere. He has also worked as a reporting fellow at Rest of World and managing editor at TechCabal.
In 2020, his feature “Gone Phishing” about an entrepreneur who graced the cover of Forbes as part of the magazine’s vaunted “30 under 30” list before being uncovered as a scammer was named in Longform’s “Best of 2020” list. He was also nominated for the Journalism Prize at 2020 The Future Awards Africa.
Adeoye holds an MA in Journalism and Media Studies (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Scholar) from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Bsc. in Consumer Sciences from Obafemi Awolowo University.
