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paydesk has 231 reporters who cover Africa. Our journalists are already on location, all over the world, and ready to work at a moment's notice. Our top correspondents who cover Africa are Pompon Beyokobana Awesse and Genevieve Belmaker. Use our journalist directory to find an Africa member to work for you.
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Pompon Beyokobana Awesse est un éminent journaliste basé à Kisangani, en République démocratique du Congo, connu pour sa couverture incisive du paysage politique et historique du pays. Son travail se concentre particulièrement sur l'héritage durable de Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, le dirigeant de longue ...
French
Lingala
Swahili
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+12
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+15
Usually Responds Within a day
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Genevieve is an award-winning editor, reporter, author and photographer based in Olympia, Washington. She has worked in New York City, Israel, the West Bank, and across the U.S. She was formerly Forests Editor for Mongabay, an environmental and science news website, and is currently a Service ...
English
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Investigative Journalism
+4
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+4
Usually Responds Within an hour
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Romain Chanson is a journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Radio - Vidéo - Writing
French
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Fact Checking
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 25
Job Success Rate 96%
Usually Responds Within a day
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Shantel Chisango is a journalist with experience in political and mining reporting in the U.S. and France. She focuses on clear, fact-based storytelling that informs the public and highlights critical issues across borders.
English
French
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
Documentaries
+10
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+5
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Bill Corcoran is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has worked across Sub-Saharan Africa for the past 11 years providing breaking news and analysis from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland, Liberia, Uganda, Malawi and Zambia to name but a few countries. Bill is currently the ...
English
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
+7
Current Affairs
Fact Checking
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Saibal Dasgupta is a journalist based in Beijing, China.
English
Hindi
Urdu
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
News Gathering
+10
Business
Finance
Politics
+5
Jobs Completed 3
Usually Responds Within a few weeks
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MQONDISI DUBE is a journalist based in Gaborone, South-East, Botswana.
English
Ndebele
Tswana
+1
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
News Gathering
Feature Stories
+3
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+4
Jobs Completed 372
Job Success Rate 98%
Usually Responds Within an hour
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Sakhile Dube is an Independent Journalist based in South Africa. She covers a range of topics and close to her heart is climate change,energy, critical minerals business, finance, gender equality, health, and digital technology. Dube’s work has been supported by multiple grants, reflecting her ...
English
Ndebele
Zulu
Vox Pop
News Gathering
Feature Stories
+9
Business
Technology
Natural Disasters
+4
Usually Responds Within a few hours
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Paul Ejime is a Global Affairs Analyst. A widely traveled journalist, former War Correspondent and author, he is an independent Consultant on Communications and Media development and Governance Issues, such as peace and security and elections.
French
Journalism
Current Affairs
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Africa Correspondent of The Times (London)
English
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
News Gathering
Risk Analysis
+5
Business
Current Affairs
Entertainment & Celebrity
+3
Jobs Completed 116
Job Success Rate 98%
Usually Responds Within a few days
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I'm Eden Harris, a journalist based in Washington, D.C. I freelance for Financial Times' Banking Risk and Regulation, Connecting Africa News and more. I cover U.S.-Africa policy, banking, fintech, culture, U.S. politics and more. I've traveled to Africa for reporting as well. I've worked as a ...
English
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
+11
Business
Finance
Politics
+14
Usually Responds Within a day
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Kim Harrisberg is a multimedia journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She won the Vodacom Online Journalist of the Year award in 2015 for her multimedia storytelling piece on domestic worker's salaries in South Africa. She is skilled in journalistic writing, videography, audio editing ...
Afrikaans
English
Hebrew
+1
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+11
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+5
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Fred Harter is the Ethiopia correspondent for The Times of London. He also writes for The Independent and the Africa Report, and appears regularly on Times Radio and the BBC World Service. He is available available for print stories, radio phoners, research and corporate work.
English
News Gathering
Feature Stories
Content Writing
+7
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 4
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Albert Kuzor is my name, a broadcast journalist based in Ghana. I work with Ghana’s leading Media Organization, the Multimedia Group. At the Multimedia Group, I work with Joy News as News writer for the brand’s online platform, Myjoyonline.com
English
Ewe
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
News Gathering
Feature Stories
+5
Politics
Current Affairs
Investigative Reporting
+5
Usually Responds Within a few hours
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I am the Guardian's West Africa correspondent, based in Dakar. Previously I was The Times's correspondent in South Africa and Mexico. I can make audio and video for broadcast or the web to a very high standard. I also shoot my own photographs. I have an extensive knowledge of the region and good ...
English
Spanish
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+14
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 5
Usually Responds Within a day
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Farai Shawn Matiashe is an award-winning journalist based in Mutare, Zimbabwe who writes for various international media outlets including Aljazeera (Qatar), CNN International (UK) the Thomson Reuters Foundation (UK), Vice World News (UK), The Africa Report (France), Euronews (UK) and Quartz Africa ...
English
Feature Stories
Investigative Journalism
Interview (Print / Radio / Podcast)
+1
Climate Change
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 6
Usually Responds Within an hour
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Former AFP and RFI correspondent in Luanda, Angola. Currently based in Paris. Interested in Angola, Mozambique and Africa + economics.
English
French
Portuguese
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
+6
Fact Checking
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Kent Mensah has 18 years of experience as a journalist. He is the Ghana correspondent for AFP and Thompson Reuters Foundation (Context). He strings for VOA and a contributor for The Africa Report. His bylines are in several international outlets including Al Jazeera English, The Guardian (UK), The ...
Akan
English
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
News Gathering
+6
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+9
Jobs Completed 7
Job Success Rate 100%
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Jeffrey Moyo is a journalist based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
English
Ndebele
Shona
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Feature Stories
+7
Politics
Current Affairs
Natural Disasters
+6
Jobs Completed 49
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Seldom
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Shafi Musaddique is a journalist based in London, United Kingdom. Currently freelance business reporter for the Independent. Bylines also in Prospect Magazine, Huffington Post in 2017. Previously a journalist at the BBC and the Economist, starting out as a reporter for local newspapers in London.
Bengali
English
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Feature Stories
Content Writing
+5
Business
Finance
Politics
+6
Jobs Completed 4
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I am a freelance journalist for Thomson Reuters, New Arab Media, and Remedy Health New York and a member of the US State Department Foreign Press Association. I cover technology, public health, economics, climate change, food security, migration and climate change topics. I have specialist ...
English
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
News Gathering
+9
Business
Finance
Politics
+14
Jobs Completed 7
Job Success Rate 88%
Usually Responds Within a few hours
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Yun Sun is a think tank scholar.
English
360 Videography
Research
Jobs Completed 33
Job Success Rate 97%
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Darren Taylor is a journalist based in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. He has been reporting on current affairs throughout Africa since the early 1990s. He specializes in longer form, in depth investigative and human interest features, for both radio and print, but is equally adept at short-...
English
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+7
Politics
Current Affairs
Technology
+12
Jobs Completed 396
Job Success Rate 99%
Usually Responds Within a day
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