African Journalist of the Year 2009
“I want to work on becoming a better storyteller. I think at the bottom of every journalist’s pursuit are those words: tell me a story. If you’re a good storyteller then no matter what platform you’re reporting on you will succeed,” award-winning Kenyan journalist John-Allan Namu says.
His award-winning films ‘In the Shadow of the Mungiki’ and ‘Inside Story: Scars and Sufurias’ were the result of a four-person production team, intensive research and an investigative mind.
The 26-year-old, who graduated four years ago from his journalism course at Nairobi’s United States International University, thanks his current employer Kenyan Television Network (KTN), who took him on as an intern, for ‘training me and generally moulding me into the journalist I am today’.
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