Alphonce Shiundu

About

Alphonce Shiundu is an award-winning writer, journalist and editor, and currently the country editor of Africa’s leading fact-checking organisation, Africa Check (https://africacheck.org/). He previously worked in Kenya’s mainstream media houses, specifically The Nation Media Group and The Standard Group Plc writing on public policy, legislation, and politics. His work has been featured in major international media platforms including the BBC, CNN, The Africa Report, Aljazeera, D+C Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, ChinAfrica Magazine. He has conducted dozens of journalism, access to information, media literacy and fact-checking training and made presentations on evidence-based decision-making to hundreds of government officials, researchers, journalists, students and the civil society, in Africa and in Europe. He has a Master of Arts in Media and Development from the University of Westminster, London, and a Bachelor of Science in Information Sciences from Moi University in Kenya. He is a 2015 alumnus of the Young African Leaders Initiative Regional Learning Centre in Nairobi; a 2013 Media Fellow of the Professional Fellows Exchange Programme, Washington DC; and a 2012 fellow of the School of Authentic Journalism, Mexico City. He’s the 2018 winner of the Africa Book Club Awards for his story ‘Wrong Patient’ published in an eponymous anthology.