Staff
The masthead behind Afrikons — the editors, reporters, and builders covering Africa's technology economy.
Afrikons is written and edited by a distributed newsroom working across Lagos, Nairobi, Cairo, Accra, Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Kigali. We report on the founders, funders, and products building the continent's technology economy — and we do it close to the ground, in the markets we live in. Every story carries a byline, every correction carries a date, and every reporter below can be reached directly.
Editorial Leadership
The desk that decides what runs, when it runs, and how hard we push on it.
Amara Chukwu
Editor-in-Chief
Sets editorial direction and owns every correction we publish.
Lagos
Nadia El-Amin
Managing Editor
Runs the daily budget meeting and the long-read pipeline.
Cairo
Kwame Asante
Standards Editor
Sourcing, disclosures, and the line between analysis and opinion.
Accra
Newsroom
Reporters who file from the room where the deal, the outage, or the launch actually happened.
Wanjiru Kamau
Senior Reporter, Venture
Funds, term sheets, and the investors writing the cheques.
Nairobi
Tomiwa Bello
Reporter, Startups
Early-stage founders, hiring, and the unglamorous middle years.
Lagos
Zanele Dlamini
Reporter, Fintech
Mobile money, cross-border rails, and banking regulation.
Johannesburg
Chidi Okafor
Reporter, Security
Breaches, surveillance, and the people patching the gaps.
Abuja
Baraka Mwangi
Reporter, AI & Infrastructure
Models, data centres, and the power bill nobody budgeted for.
Nairobi
Product, Audience & Events
The team that gets the work in front of readers and into rooms across the continent.
Sipho Ndlovu
Head of Product
The site, the apps, and everything that has to load on a slow connection.
Cape Town
Fatima Njoku
Director of Audience & Events
Newsletters, podcasts, and the Afrikons Summit programme.
Kigali
Reaching the newsroom
Staff addresses follow the pattern firstname.lastname@afrikons.example. For anything that isn't aimed at a specific reporter, write to newsroom@afrikons.example.