Dorcas Wangira is a freelance journalist based in Kenya who covers science and health. In 2019, she won ICFJ’s Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling and the experience was a big career boost. “The award was a catalyst for my career growth,” she says. Since then she’s mentored other journalists.
Nigerian journalist Ojoma Akor has received a variety of awards and fellowships throughout her career. Through an ICFJ program, she produced important work, including the first cross-border story in her portfolio. She credits the fellowship for deepening her understanding of malnutrition on the health beat.
On an international reporting trip to Cape Town, South Africa, ICFJ Health Innovation Fellow Priscilla Lynch documented both the successes and challenges of healthcare facilities that are managing to provide essential services to South Africans amid difficult circumstances.
Stretching across a broad expanse of wilderness along South Africa’s Eastern Cape, the Transkei is the region set aside for the Xhosa people by the old apartheid regime, ostensibly as an experiment in black self-governance. It is also the birthplace of some of South Africa’s greatest freedom fighters, among them Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Thabo Mbeki.
