Awards + credits
International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in the Americas Fellow (2024)
British Journalism Awards Innovation of the Year Winner, for Eco-Bot.Net (The Guardian, TIME Magazine, 2021-22)
One World Media News Award, Longlist for ‘From naked protests to challenging Museveni: Uganda’s 'rudest feminist' on the campaign trail’ (The Guardian, 2021)
Amnesty Media Awards Feature Award, Finalist for ‘They were sent to a shelter for safety. Instead, these women say they were sexually abused’ (CNN, 2020)
One World Media Popular Features Award Longlist for ‘The feminist DJs in Uganda taking back the night’ (CNN, 2019)
European Journalism Centre Innovation in Development Reporting, Grantee for ‘Bolly Lolly Dhally’ (2018)
New Internationalist 2017 Top Reads, ‘The Joy of Kunyaza’ (2017)
European Journalism Centre Innovation in Development Reporting, Grantee for ‘Big Men’ (2017)
VICE Magazine Employee of the Month (March 2017)
London Independent Film Festival Best Short Documentary Nominee for ‘Malawi Gold’ (2017)
New York City Cannabis Film Festival Best Short Runner Up for ‘Malawi Gold’ ( 2017)
One World Media Production Fellow (2016)
Transparency International Amilia Award for Professional Excellence for ‘ukunmaskthecorrupt.org’, Nominee (2015)
Stories
The Guardian
Oscar nomination gives Bobi Wine new hope of toppling Uganda’s regime
Ugandan president calls on Africa to ‘save the world from homosexuality’ (investigation, exclusive)
Canadian pipeline groups spend big to pose as Indigenous champions (investigation, award-winning)
‘A bad dream’: Nepalis who made UK’s PPE speak out on claims of abusive working conditions
Right back at you: the Ugandan designer returning the west’s cast-offs (print)
‘Grandmothers are our weather app’: new maps and local knowledge power Chad’s climate fightback
Inside tracks: the record label providing hope in a Cameroonian jail
‘We like the sound of PVC tubing’: Fulu Miziki, the band who make music out of trash
From naked protests to challenging Museveni: Uganda’s 'rudest feminist' on the campaign trail (video, award nominated)
Tanzania to lift ban on teenage mothers returning to school
Controversy over $500m loan that allows Tanzania to take pregnant girls out of their classroom
Major aid donors found to have funded ‘conversion therapy’ clinics in Africa
US missionary faces new legal action over child deaths at Uganda health centre
'I want my kids back': how overseas adoptions splinter Uganda's families (investigation)
Uganda elections: on the campaign trail with the country’s rudest feminist
Uganda to US adoption scam: judges and lawyers sanctioned
US missionary accused over Uganda child deaths settles out of court
'We were beaten': 20 LGBTQ+ Ugandans file lawsuit over alleged torture
Kenya calls for help in fight against rising sexual abuse by foreigners
'After prison, I'm stronger, more vulgar!': the irrepressible Stella Nyanzi
Uganda megachurch criticised for choir tour as children stranded by Covid-19
Tanzania to ease education ban on pregnant girls – but not in classrooms
'Sensitise to sanitise': Bobi Wine uses song to fight coronavirus across Africa (contributor)
Uganda's thirst for hydropower raises fears for environment
Malawi legalises cannabis amid hopes of fresh economic growth
‘You can't handcuff my spirit’: jailed writer wins freedom of expression prize
Kampala, Uganda: a tour of tropical modernism (Observer, print)
Paraa’s community-led urban design in Bangladesh (Observer, print)
Arcade games, African-style (Observer, print)
'Men fear us': Kampala's market women unite against harassment
'Poetry is the antidote': in fight against Hindu nationalism, India turns to verse
Is Uganda's 'critical shortage' of architects costing lives?
High-vis, low-conflict: Kampala gets its first Critical Mass cycle ride
'Our club is the biggest social network for people with learning disabilities'
'They take us very seriously now': how co-operatives could take back Kampala
'End spatial apartheid': why housing activists are occupying Cape Town
Accra at 60: concrete heads and colonial questions in Ghana's capital
A walk to freedom: can Joburg's bridges heal the urban scars of apartheid?
VICE
The Daily Wire Spent Thousands of Dollars Promoting Anti-Amber Heard Propaganda (investigation)
He Gave Her a Job, Then an STI. She Says Police Care More About Money Than Truth. (investigation)
‘A Great Loss to Women’: Uganda Says Consent Cannot Be Withdrawn During Sex
Bobi Wine’s Supporters Outed Me As Trans – But I Would Still Vote for Him
Why Activists Are Celebrating MTV Africa Postponing Its Awards Show in Uganda
Masculinity and Mental Health in Post-Genocide Rwanda
After Losing Her Family to AIDS, This Woman Built an App to Save Lives
The African Country on a Mission to Legalize Hemp (And Maybe Weed Too) (print)
DJ Rachael Wants to See More Women in Ugandan Dance Music
Morocco’s Anti-Colonial "Moon King" Lives—Inside This Artist's Memory
This Yayoi Kusama/Louise Bourgeois Show Is Basically Like Going to Therapy
The Fearless Feminist Artist Taking Down South Africa's 'Bro Code'
Artist Recreates the Deadly Movie Theater That Sparked the 1979 Iranian Revolution
I Went to a Feminist Class for Private School Boys
This Festival Founded by Brits in Malawi Swears It's Not Problematic
How David Bowie's Contemporary African Art Collection Challenged Conventions
Afrofuturist Art Emerges in a Mystical New Music Video
Take a Haunting Trip to Nairobi’s ‘Concrete Jungle’ in These Images
Artist Toasts Sinatra with Whiskey and Bananas
Historian Launches "Living History Hubs" in Ghana
"African Electronics" Takes a Spiritual Approach to Individual Power
CNN
Why have women been so disproportionately affected by Covid-19? Experts explain
Alleging her partner was abducted and tortured, Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi flees to Kenya
They were sent to a shelter for safety. Instead, these women say they were sexually abused (investigation, award nominated)
An alleged child abuser died before his trial. His accusers are now being blamed
Activists defiant as Uganda proposes death penalty for gay sex
She wrote a poem about a vagina. It landed her in jail
Ugandan activist gets nine more months in jail for a poem about a vagina
This new Indian electronic music genre is fusing religion and politics
With her or with him? How the sexual attack of an Indian actor inspired a powerful feminist movement
The feminist DJs in Uganda taking back the night (award nominated)
When her naked selfies were posted online, she thought life couldn't get worse. Then she was arrested
Cuando publicaron sus selfies desnuda en Internet, pensó que nada podía ser peor, hasta que la arrestaron (translated from English to Spanish)
Ethiopians abroad eye return as reforms kick in back home
This app tells your doctor if you have malaria
National Health Service's 70th anniversary inspires protests across UK
Could Trump put an end to the Iranian art boom?
Meet the 19-year-old tech genius coding at Ethiopia's first AI lab
Ready for a different type of royal wedding celebration? (live reporter)
Saudi Arabia: OPEC and Russia to pump more oil 'in the near future' (contributor)
China slashes tariffs on imported cars (contributor)
Are US and EU heading for a trade war? (contributor)
Qatar Airways CEO: Gulf boycott hurts but won't bring us down (contributor)
Thomson Reuters Foundation
LGBT+ Ugandans find camaraderie, hope and despair on election day
100 hours in the dark: How an election internet blackout hit poor Ugandans
INTERVIEW - Outspoken Ugandan feminist puts jail behind her on the campaign trail
Breaking down walls, Iranian women fight home-built patriarchy
Ugandan officials summoned before court over torture of LGBT+ youth
Court orders release of jailed LGBT+ Ugandans after coronavirus charges dropped
Court allows lawyers to see LGBT+ Ugandans jailed over coronavirus
Ugandan rights groups demand release of LGBT+ people jailed over coronavirus
Uganda charges 20 LGBT+ people with risking spread of coronavirus
Arrests, evictions and scapegoating: Coronavirus takes a toll on LGBT+ Africans
From chatbots to online markets, Africans craft weapons against coronavirus (contributor)
Women protest against sexual violence in Malawi
Meet the Ugandan bishop who fights for LGBT+ rights (video)
Young Ugandan climate activists join 'school strike' push
New masculinities: meet Uganda's transgender men fighting sexism
The New Internationalist
What if…the West stopped exporting second hand clothing?
Refuge in nature (print or subscription only)
Is criminalisation the right response to domestic violence? (editor)
Dhallywood Dreams (print)
The joy of kunyaza: women’s pleasure comes first in Rwanda
Get up, stand up: Cannabis in South Africa (print)
Okayafrica
Boris Johnson is Bad News For Africa: Here’s Why
Artists Explore Postcolonialism In Britain’s First Colony At Ireland’s Biennial
Inside Accra’s Fresh New Art Gallery, Opening This Ghanaian Independence Day
African Artists At London’s “1:54 Art Fair” Rethink Traditions
The Artists Of Accra’s Chale Wote Street Festival Interpret “African Electronics”
Dazed
Vintage or Violence: inside Uganda’s secondhand clothing trade
Women in South Asia are lip syncing for their lives on TikTok
Meet the female MCs making noise at Uganda’s Nyege Nyege festival
Inside Berlin’s death-positive funeral scene
5 East African musicians you need to know
Al Jazeera
Thwarted by Rwanda-Uganda border closures, women await resolution
Crossing closed: How women on the Uganda-Rwanda border are coping (photo story)
Uganda's gold boom leaves small-scale miners behind
Ethiopia: The last Greeks of Addis Ababa
BBC
'I want to stand up for every woman experiencing abuse' (translated to French and Gahuza)
An ancient island at the centre of the world (video story)
The oldest coffee in the world? (multimedia)
Kenya election: The men of violence making a fresh start (translated to Somali)
El País
El #MeToo gana terreno en el sur de Asia (translated from English to Spanish)
¿Qué significa ser hombre? (translated from English to Spanish)
“Si una mujer te quiere, va a acostarse contigo tanto si eres seropositivo como si no” (translated from English to Spanish)
La nueva masculinidad de Kenia (translated from English to Spanish)
Novara Media
‘Sisterhood and Solidarity’: How Pakistan’s Feminists Started an Anti-War Movement (photographer)
What Can Ghana’s Media Landscape Teach Us About Press Freedom Under Neoliberalism?
What's the point of referendums?
Is It Time to Take the ‘Great’ out of Great Britain?
African Arguments
“I saw myself as I giant”: Tackling a crisis of masculinity in Kenya
Toxic masculinity and the spread of HIV in Uganda
Meet some of the men redefining masculinity in Kenya
The Independent
Trust me, I’m a doctor: Why some concerned GPs helped pause the NHS ‘data grab’
Anti-vax groups want to ‘save the children’ – but what do teens actually want?
Byline Times
Quarter of Top Conservative Donors have Received Honours or Peerages (contributor)
Average Elite Conservative Donor Giving £500,000 is 65-Year-Old White Man Called Michael (contributor)
Undark magazine
In Swiss Academic Science, Charges of Bullying and Gender Bias
In Artificial Intelligence, Young Ethiopians Eye a Fertile Future
TIME Magazine
Greenwashing on Facebook: How the World's Biggest Polluters Use Social Media to Obfuscate on Climate Change (investigation, award-winning)
Elle Magazine
What Role Can Men Play In The Fight Against FGM?
The Outline
East Africa's Hip-Hop Politics
i-D
Meet the performance artist challenging gender norms in Ghana
openDemocracy
US conservatives spreading anti-vax misinformation to unvaccinated Uganda (investigation, award-winning)