Meet David Hundeyin, a speaker on our panel, Storytelling as Nation Building.
David Hundeyin is from the Ogu ethnic group in Nigeria. He is a writer, investigative journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared on CNN, The Africa Report, Al Jazeera and The Washington Post. His work as a satirist on ‘The Other News,’ Nigeria’s answer to The Daily Show was featured in the New Yorker Magazine and in the Netflix documentary ‘Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy.’ David is currently a James Currey Fellow at Cambridge University, and a member of the SafeBox Network run by Forbidden Stories, which safekeeps the work of journalists in danger.
For his brave and audacious work, David has been nominated for several awards and grants:
In 2018, he was nominated by the US State Department for the 2019 Edward Murrow program for journalists under the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP).
In February 2021, he won the People Journalism Prize for Africa 2020 for my work unraveling predatory legislation that was being rushed through Nigeria’s House of Representatives.
In June 2021, he was selected as Africa’s only representative on a list of 12 writers and journalists from around the world chosen to take part in Substack’s inaugural $1 million Substack Local program.
In December, he was named the GRC (Governance Risk Compliance) Anti FinCrime Reporter Of The Year at Nigeria’s GRC Awards. Most recently in March 2022, his OSINT investigation “Who Killed Hiny Umoren?” made the global shortlist at the 2022 Sigma Awards for data journalism.
You can find him tweeting his uncut and uncensored thoughts from the handle @DavidHundeyin.
We look forward to hosting this brave storyteller on our panel. Get your tix here.
