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Ajibola Amzat is the Africa editor for the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ). Prior to this, he served as editor and managing editor at the International Center for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) from 2018 to 2022. He also held the position of features editor at The Guardian, the flagship of Nigerian print journalism, where he earned several journalism awards.
His work focuses on investigating power structures in West Africa, combating information disorder, and advancing data-driven journalism.
Amzat holds a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from the University of Lagos, where he also studied International Law and Diplomacy. He earned a master’s degree in Journalism and Media Studies as a Knight Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa, and later studied data journalism at Columbia Journalism School in New York.
He is the co-publisher of WikkiTimes.
