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Sheriff Bojang Jnr
Sheriff Bojang Jnr, now based in Leeds in the UK, is a Gambian freelance broadcast, print and online journalist, podcast producer and researcher on West Africa. He freelances for World Politics Review (WPR), VOA, West Africa Democracy Radio, RFI English service and New African magazine. He occasionally file for Aljazeera, France 24 and Africa 24. Sheriff is the recipient of the 2011 Radio for Peacebuilding Africa award - by Search for Common Grounds. He was also a finalist for the 2015 CNN African Journalist of the Year award, as well as the 2012 Fitzgerald Price for Young African Journalists - by Reuters. He's also an independent researcher on/in West Africa and among his clients are Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis, Bairds CMC, Cross-Border Information and Sunday Times. He covered the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, the 2015 general elections in Nigeria, the 2014 revolution in Burkina Faso, 2012 presidential elections in Senegal and Sierra Leone, the trial of ex-Chadian dictator, Hissene Habre, and the 2016 presidential election and political impasse in The Gambia, among other major events.
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
News Gathering
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Research
Fixing
Live Reporting
Fact Checking
Fact Checking
Beauty queen narrates how she was allegedly raped by former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh
Post-dictatorship Gambia sweats over security sector reform as alleged tortures and their victims continue to serve in the same armed forces.
Story of a Gambian IT engineer who resigned from a lucrative IT job in the US to start rice farming in The Gambia
A report on the families of missing Gambians (people who disappeared after being arrested by the former regime).
A rare access to the Gambia's most notorious prison (during the reign of Yahya Jammeh) to report on chilling stories of abuse and neglect of prisoners.