Eromo Egbejule Explained

Eromo Egbejule
Birth Name:Eromo Egbejule
Nationality:Nigerian
Occupation:Writer, journalist, filmmaker
Years Active:2012 - present

Eromo Egbejule is a Nigerian journalist, writer and filmmaker. He is known mostly for his work on the Boko Haram insurgency[1] [2] [3] and other conflicts in West and Central Africa.[4] [5] [6] He is currently Africa Editor at Al Jazeera English.[7]

Background

Egbejule was born in Sapele, Nigeria. He has degrees in engineering, media and communications and data journalism from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka,[8] University of Leicester and Columbia University respectively.

Writing career

He started his career writing for local Nigerian papers like The Guardian (Nigeria), ThisDay,[9] [10] NEXT and YNaija.[11] In 2014, he covered the ebola crisis in Liberia for local Nigerian media, but later that year began working as a freelance reporter and stringer for foreign media on music and culture.[12] Since then, he has reported extensively on the Boko Haram insurgency,[13] elections across West Africa, sustainability in the Peruvian Amazon, Sino-African relations in the Horn of Africa and other themes.[14] In a 2017 interview, he is quoted to have said his reporting style focuses on 'rotating the cube',.[15]

His writing and photography have appeared in The Atlantic,[16] The Guardian (UK), Al-Jazeera,[17] New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,[18] Thomson Reuters Foundation, Premium Times,[19] Telegraph (UK),[20] The Times[21] and more. In 2020, he joined OZY as its Africa Editor,[22] just months after leaving his role as West Africa Editor for The Africa Report magazine (2018-2019). In 2022, he joined Al Jazeera English as its Africa Editor.

In fall 2019, he was named one of four Dag Hammarsjköld Journalism Fellows at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for his work in covering 'husband schools' in rural Sierra Leone, setup to combat gender-based violence in the country.[23] His narrative nonfiction has also been shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship for narrative nonfiction. He has been described as "one of the country’s most important storytellers".[24]

Egbejule has also made intermittent incursions into academics, having been a visiting lecturer and researcher to Malmö University,[25] Sweden across February 2017. He has also taught lectures and seminar classes at the University of Copenhagen,[26] Linnaeus University, Växjö[27] and New York University on among other things, his coverage of the insurgency in the Sahel and Anglophone crisis in Cameroon. In 2014, he was a recipient of the Prince Claus travel grant [28] for culture and development, to facilitate a short teaching spell in Mexico.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Defiance on the dancefloor: clubbing in the birthplace of Boko Haram Nigeria The Guardian. TheGuardian.com. 27 September 2016.
  2. Web site: The massacre Nigeria forgot: a year after Boko Haram's attack on Baga Nigeria The Guardian. TheGuardian.com. 9 January 2016.
  3. Web site: The New Humanitarian They're defeating Boko Haram but are they Nigeria's next security threat?. 22 August 2016.
  4. Web site: Death, displacement, trauma: Human cost of the Anglophone crisis Features Al Jazeera.
  5. Web site: Is another president attempting to cling to power in Guinea? Features Al Jazeera.
  6. News: Nigeria's spiraling herdsmen-farmer violence fuels fears of humanitarian crisis Reuters. Reuters. 13 February 2017.
  7. Web site: Eromo Egbejule | al Jazeera News | Today's latest from al Jazeera .
  8. Web site: Award-winning Journalist & Storyteller Eromo Egbejule is our #BellaNaijaMCM this Week. 5 February 2018.
  9. Web site: Nigeria: Rex Jim Lawson and This Highlife of a Thing - allAfrica.com.
  10. Web site: Nigeria: The 90's Wants }} Stars Back - allAfrica.com].
  11. Web site: YNaija Investigation: How – and why – Ghana's musicians are looking up to Nigeria (Part 1) » YNaija. 10 June 2013.
  12. Web site: From Semi Colon to Sweet Breeze: Nigeria's all time great band names | World news . The Guardian . 7 November 2014. 2020-04-03.
  13. Web site: Eromo Egbejule in Maiduguri . Defiance on the dancefloor: clubbing in the birthplace of Boko Haram | World news . The Guardian . 27 September 2016. 2020-04-03.
  14. Web site: Djibouti: Small country, big stakes. 21 August 2018.
  15. Web site: Contemporary storytelling from Nigeria with ComDev visiting lecturer Eromo Egbejule comdev portal TESTSITE. 7 March 2017.
  16. Web site: All Stories by Eromo Egbejule - The Atlantic. The Atlantic.
  17. Web site: Eromo Egbejule | al Jazeera.
  18. News: Raubkunst aus Benin: Die Beute-Bronzen. Faz.net.
  19. Web site: SPECIAL REPORT: How Diezani, her men, their deals bled Nigeria - Premium Times Nigeria. 9 September 2017.
  20. Web site: Eromo Egbejule. 2 July 2019.
  21. News: Nigeria reclaims the champion it 'rejected'. Lagos. Eromo Egbejule.
  22. Web site: Estimated Reading Time: <1 . Nigerian journalist, Eromo Egbejule joins OZY Magazine as the First African Editor . NewsWireNGR . 2020-01-02 . 2020-04-03.
  23. News: 'No more beatings': Sierra Leone's husband schools take on domestic violence. Reuters. 9 October 2017.
  24. Web site: Eromo Egbejule is partnering with Arit Okpo to revisit the tragedy of 'Jesse' » YNaija. 23 October 2019.
  25. Web site: Tobias Denskus . Contemporary storytelling from Nigeria with ComDev visiting lecturer Eromo Egbejule - COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT PORTAL . Wpmu.mah.se . 2017-03-07 . 2020-04-03.
  26. Web site: Electronic newsletter CAS eNews. 19 September 2011.
  27. Web site: An Interview with Eromo Egbejule . Arts and Africa . 22 September 2017. 2020-04-03.
  28. Web site: #MCM Journalist and storyteller, Eromo Egbejule, is our Man Crush this Monday! - Pulse Nigeria . Pulse.ng . 17 September 2018. 2020-04-03.

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