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David Hundeyin is a Nigerian journalist and author. [1] [2] He founded the West Africa Weekly, a Substack newsletter. [3]
Hundeyin initially studied mass communications at Igbinedion University before going overseas to study creative writing at the University of Hull and graduating in 2011. After working several jobs including a contract position at KPMG, he returned home to Nigeria in 2013. [4]
Hundeyin is an investigative journalist. His reporting style, at times open-sourced, has won him multiple awards but also earned him criticism. [1] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the writer, has called him a "brilliant" investigative journalist. [5]
In 2020, he wrote an article for NewswireNGR about Globacom and the work conditions and treatment of their Indian expatriate workers. [1] After the story was published, the workers received their owed pay. [6] India Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote Hundeyin a letter of appreciation for his journalism. [1]
He also wrote an investigative report about the potential human rights violations coming out of a proposed infectious diseases bill in Nigeria's house of representative addressing the COVID-19 lockdown. This article won Hundeyin a People Journalism Prize for Africa. [6] [7]
In 2021, Hundeyin wrote about the rape and death of a 26-year-old woman. The article and several Tweets by Hundeyin alleged that the suspect used a hotel owned by the wife of Nigerian politician Godswill Akpabio. Akpabio demanded a retraction from Hundeyin because he believed the publication gave the impression that the couple was complicit in the crime and threatened a lawsuit. [2] [8]
Hundeyin received a grant from Substack Local to start the newsletter, West Africa Weekly, on its platform in 2021. [9] He attributed this publishing change to the creative and editorial freedom it afforded him. He accused Globacom, a telecom company, of throttling access to the NewswireNGR site after his report came out and said that the website would always get cyberattacks after he writes a story. His newsletter would be delivered to his subscribers directly through email instead. [10]
In 2022, Hundeyin published investigative articles on Nigerian presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, tech start-up Flutterwave, and the BBC’s West Africa operations. The reports initiated intense social media conversations between Hundeyin and the subjects of his articles or their supporters. [9] Hundeyin is a supporter of Peter Obi, who ran against Tinubu in the 2023 presidential race. [11]
In April 2023, Hundeyin published Nigeria president-elect Tinubu's Guinean passport on Twitter which questioned his eligibility to become president. Hundeyin's Twitter account was locked for violating Twitter's policy on personal identifying information. [12] [13]
In 2022, Hundeyin was announced as The Distinguished James Currey Fellow for 2023 as an academic visitor to the Centre of African Studies at The University of Cambridge after signing a publishing deal with the founder of the program, Onyeka Nwelue. [14] [15] In March 2023, Hundeyin was dismissed from Cambridge after an investigation into his conduct with Nwelue during his book launch at Oxford University. [16] [17] While Nwelue was accused of misrepresenting himself as an Oxford University professor even though he was an unpaid Academic Visitor, [18] Hundeyin was accused by attendees of the event of making misogynistic and sexist comments. [17] On Twitter, he presented his fellowship as being awarded by Cambridge University even though he was just an academic visitor under Nwelue's now discredited fellowship scheme. [19] Hundeyin later accused Oxford professor Miles Larmer and Kaduna state Governor Nasir el-Rufai, an advisor to Oxford's African Studies Centre, of being behind the accusations and development, but provided no evidence in support of his allegations. [20] [21]
After participating in the #EndSARS protest, he left Nigeria in 2020 when multiple threats were made against him. [4] [22] He was granted asylum and refugee status in Ghana in 2022. [22]
• Royal Commonwealth Society "Write Around The World", Class B (14-15 years old) 3rd Prize, 2006 [23] [24]
• People Journalism Prize for Africa, 2020 [25]
• GRC & Anti-Financial Crime Reporter of the Year, 2021 [26] [27]
• James Currey Fellowship, 2023 [28] [29]
David Hundeyin | |
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Nationality | Nigerian |
Occupations |
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Website |
davidhundeyin |
David Hundeyin is a Nigerian journalist and author. [1] [2] He founded the West Africa Weekly, a Substack newsletter. [3]
Hundeyin initially studied mass communications at Igbinedion University before going overseas to study creative writing at the University of Hull and graduating in 2011. After working several jobs including a contract position at KPMG, he returned home to Nigeria in 2013. [4]
Hundeyin is an investigative journalist. His reporting style, at times open-sourced, has won him multiple awards but also earned him criticism. [1] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the writer, has called him a "brilliant" investigative journalist. [5]
In 2020, he wrote an article for NewswireNGR about Globacom and the work conditions and treatment of their Indian expatriate workers. [1] After the story was published, the workers received their owed pay. [6] India Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote Hundeyin a letter of appreciation for his journalism. [1]
He also wrote an investigative report about the potential human rights violations coming out of a proposed infectious diseases bill in Nigeria's house of representative addressing the COVID-19 lockdown. This article won Hundeyin a People Journalism Prize for Africa. [6] [7]
In 2021, Hundeyin wrote about the rape and death of a 26-year-old woman. The article and several Tweets by Hundeyin alleged that the suspect used a hotel owned by the wife of Nigerian politician Godswill Akpabio. Akpabio demanded a retraction from Hundeyin because he believed the publication gave the impression that the couple was complicit in the crime and threatened a lawsuit. [2] [8]
Hundeyin received a grant from Substack Local to start the newsletter, West Africa Weekly, on its platform in 2021. [9] He attributed this publishing change to the creative and editorial freedom it afforded him. He accused Globacom, a telecom company, of throttling access to the NewswireNGR site after his report came out and said that the website would always get cyberattacks after he writes a story. His newsletter would be delivered to his subscribers directly through email instead. [10]
In 2022, Hundeyin published investigative articles on Nigerian presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, tech start-up Flutterwave, and the BBC’s West Africa operations. The reports initiated intense social media conversations between Hundeyin and the subjects of his articles or their supporters. [9] Hundeyin is a supporter of Peter Obi, who ran against Tinubu in the 2023 presidential race. [11]
In April 2023, Hundeyin published Nigeria president-elect Tinubu's Guinean passport on Twitter which questioned his eligibility to become president. Hundeyin's Twitter account was locked for violating Twitter's policy on personal identifying information. [12] [13]
In 2022, Hundeyin was announced as The Distinguished James Currey Fellow for 2023 as an academic visitor to the Centre of African Studies at The University of Cambridge after signing a publishing deal with the founder of the program, Onyeka Nwelue. [14] [15] In March 2023, Hundeyin was dismissed from Cambridge after an investigation into his conduct with Nwelue during his book launch at Oxford University. [16] [17] While Nwelue was accused of misrepresenting himself as an Oxford University professor even though he was an unpaid Academic Visitor, [18] Hundeyin was accused by attendees of the event of making misogynistic and sexist comments. [17] On Twitter, he presented his fellowship as being awarded by Cambridge University even though he was just an academic visitor under Nwelue's now discredited fellowship scheme. [19] Hundeyin later accused Oxford professor Miles Larmer and Kaduna state Governor Nasir el-Rufai, an advisor to Oxford's African Studies Centre, of being behind the accusations and development, but provided no evidence in support of his allegations. [20] [21]
After participating in the #EndSARS protest, he left Nigeria in 2020 when multiple threats were made against him. [4] [22] He was granted asylum and refugee status in Ghana in 2022. [22]
• Royal Commonwealth Society "Write Around The World", Class B (14-15 years old) 3rd Prize, 2006 [23] [24]
• People Journalism Prize for Africa, 2020 [25]
• GRC & Anti-Financial Crime Reporter of the Year, 2021 [26] [27]
• James Currey Fellowship, 2023 [28] [29]