Humphrey Nkonde

Humphrey Nkonde is an award-winning professional freelance investigative journalist holding a distinction in sub-editing and design from the London School of Journalism. The Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Journalism (SKUP) offered him a grant to attend the 11 th Global Investigative Journalism Conference held in Hamburg, Germany from September 26 to 29, 2019.  In 2014, he was the leader for an innovative Braille magazine for the blind in Zambia, a project that was sponsored by Hivos and Free Press Unlimited of the Netherlands. He was among 12 journalists across Africa who were offered grants by the Africa-China Reporting Project at the University of the Witwatersrand to do Forum China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) themed articles before South Africa hosted the sixth FOCAC in December 2015. In 2016, he won the best innovation award in gender and equity reporting in education under Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) journalism awards. He was among 15 journalists in January 2018 who were invited by the London-based Thomson Reuters Foundation to attend a workshop on investigative journalism in Kampala, Uganda.