Seven journalists nominated for Future Awards Africa

Seven Journalists have been nominated for the Journalism category of the 16th edition of The Future Awards Africa (TFAA).
The nominees include 25 years old S. I Ohumu who was once a nominee for the Emmy Awards and a multimedia Journalist and 30 years old Abdulbaki Aliyu Jari, a journalist with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Others are, 24 years old Laila-Johnson, who currently works as a News Anchor at Arise News and 28 years old Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi, a Multimedia Journalist and a staff reporter at the People’s Gazette.
Twenty-eight years old Yvonne Okhaifo, a Broadcaster at Nigeria Info FM;  22 years old Chisom Peter Job, a culture and tech Journalist; and 23 years old Agbaje Ayomide, a freelance Journalist and climate tracker fellow are also nominated for the category.
The 16 categories award is aimed at celebrating African Challengers and Builders.
Themed “Celebrating Challengers and Builders”,
This year’s Awards with the theme “Celebrating Challengers and Builders” is celebrating trailblazers that have chosen to defy the status quo and redefine the norm in their various fields within the past year.

TFAA celebrates young people between the ages of 18 and 31, who have made outstanding achievements in the year under consideration.

The organizer of the awards, The Future Project is an organization committed to building a network of young Africans working together to solve the continent’s most and biggest issues.

CNN’s Nana Aisha Salaudeen won the Journalism Category in the 15th edition held in 2020.

CITATION FOR SALAUDEEN

It is easy to underestimate just how much impact Aisha Salaudeen has had in the last four years she has been working as a journalist out of Lagos. For most of 2017 and 2018, Salaudeen’s work with Stears Business became the gold standard for immersive journalism in Nigeria, inspiring dozens of young women to take on journalistic endeavours and to amplify the voices and challenges of women in fields where their impact has been erased.

She has worked in full time and freelance journalism, using images, videos, and text to report and investigate diverse human-interest stories in Africa. Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, Al Jazeera English, Okay Africa, and TRT World where she covered thorny issues like alleged police brutality, sexual abuse and surviving Boko-Haram.

With a reputation and platform to boot, Salaudeen currently works as a multimedia journalist and feature producer at the CNN Africa Bureau in Lagos, Nigeria writing/editing features on China-Africa relations, business, culture, and technology in Africa.

With years of experience in storytelling, she works with the teams producing sponsored CNN specials such as African Voices Changemakers, Inside Africa, and Marketplace Africa to create digital stories after the episodes air on T.V.

Her clarity of voice, commitment to telling a multi-perspective story and network of contacts have made her a valuable resource wherever she works and brought a more empathic perspective with a focus on Gen-Z sensibilities to CNN.

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