ABOUT

I am a journalist and all-round storyteller interested in human rights, conflict, women & child rights, arts & culture and the intersection of all these with history and everyday living. My words and photographs have appeared in leading international media including Financial Times, Reuters, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Forbes Africa, The Times, Quartz, Huffington Post and The Africa Report.

I have received grants and fellowships to support my writing from the Prince Claus Fund for Culture & Development and Africa-China Reporting Project of the University of Witswatersrand. Recognition for my work has come in the form of nominations and awards including the CNN Africa Multichoice Journalist Awards and The Future Awards Africa Prize for Journalism.
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• Since 2009, the insurgency sect Boko Haram has wreaked havoc on Northeast Nigeria. More than 2.2 million people have been displaced and an estimated people killed in the crisis. Defiance on the dancefloor: clubbing in the birthplace of Boko Haram
• Women and girls have been the worst hit since the crisis began; some have become forced brides, raped abducted and in some cases, killed. The mother who outsmarted Boko Haram for nine months by pretending to be mad
• I profiled one of Nigeria’s most wanted men and the lead agitator for the secessionist state of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
• I wrote about blackout blues in Lagos slums and the Welcome to Mirabel: the first centre supporting rape survivors in Nigeria, for The Guardian’s Lagos Week focus