Meet Kenyan finalists at CNN Multichoice journalist awards

JOHANNESBURG – Five Kenyan journalists will be battling it out with 30 others from across Africa later this evening for the CNN Multichoice Africa Journalist Award at the grand ceremony to held at Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg.

Out of the five, three are from Standard Group – two from KTN and one from the Standard newspaper. Kenyans are Asha Ahmed Mwilu & Rashid Iddi of KTN, Daily Nation’s Cheboite Kigen, Dominic Omondi of The Standard, and Isaac Otidi Amuke of Commonwealth Writers.

Here are profiles of the journalists from Kenya who are very hopeful as Kenyans have been dominated the awards, now in their 21st year,  for some time now.

Dominic Omondi: Business reporter for The Standard in Kenya, writing news and feature articles on economic, financial and business issues.

 Rashid Iddi: Senior Camera Man for Kenya Television Network (KTN). He has extensive experience in features, documentaries, investigative stories and commercials production, travelling widely for his work.

Asha Ahmed Mwilu: Has a Master’s degree from the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, being the recipient of the 2015-2016 Chevening Scholarship. Asha, who is KTN News features and documentaries editor, previously held the position of Senior Reporter for Politics and Special Projects at Kenya Television Network (KTN), covering current affairs, security and political stories across Kenya and Africa.

Watch Asha Mwilu’s story here

Cheboite Kigen: Photojournalist for Nation Media Group Limited based in Baringo County in Kenya. Being young, ambitious and focused on his photography development, he scooped the 2016 title of Photographer of the Year at the Annual Journalism Excellence Awards (AJEA) in Kenya.

 Isaac Otidi Amuke: Isaac Otidi Amuke has been a Regional Correspondent for the Commonwealth Writers Blog since March 2015. Based in Nairobi, his stories are centred on the arts, culture and socio–political concerns. He is also a Contributing Writer for the Kwani Trust. His shortlisted articles are Nairobi’s Night Photographer and Facing the Mediterranean published on Commonwealthwriters.org.

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