John-Allan Namu

John-Allan is a Kenyan investigative journalist and co-founder of Africa Uncensored. A journalist for 17 years, he is based in Nairobi and reports on national and regional affairs focusing on politics and investigative journalism. John-Allan was the 2015 and 2017 joint journalist of the year in the Annual Journalism Excellence Awards, a 2019 Global Shining light award winner, a 2019 Trace International Prize on investigative journalism winner, and the 2009 CNN African Journalist of the Year. He was a 2009 CNN fellow and a 2017 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow. He is married and lives in Nairobi with his wife and four children.