Kunle Adebajo

Nigeria, Uttar Pradesh

Investigations Editor at HumAngle

not really here; just a stubborn by-product of the mandela effect.

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Articles

The election observers

Jan 31, 2025 | rotary.org | Kunle Adebajo

Pietro Uzochukwu Macleo had reasons to be worried. Nigeria was holding a tightly contested presidential election and he was coordinating scores of people who would be observing the process across the country. It could get rowdy, or worse, bloody. But what Macleo felt most of all when he woke up that Saturday morning in February 2023 wasn’t fear. It was excitement.
Violence des gangs criminels dans le nord-ouest du Nigeria

Oct 30, 2024 | africacenter.org | Kunle Adebajo |Hamza Ibrahim

Cliquez ici pour une carte en grand-format. L’escalade de la violence des gangs criminels dans la région du nord-ouest du Nigeria a déclenché une instabilité croissante dans ce grenier de 60 millions d’habitants caractérisé par une grande diversité ethnique. La violence perpétrée par ces bandes criminelles, connues localement sous le nom de « bandits », est en passe de faire de 2024 la pire année d’insécurité de l’histoire récente de la région.
Violent Criminal Gangs Displace and Disrupt North West Nigeria - Nigeria

Oct 21, 2024 | reliefweb.int | Kunle Adebajo |Hamza Ibrahim

By Kunle Adebajo and Hamza IbrahimOctober 21, 2024Criminal gangs in Nigeria’s North West region have grown increasingly lethal, routinizing mass abductions, seizing farms in an important breadbasket, and causing massive internal displacement. The escalating violence of criminal gangs in Nigeria’s North West region has triggered growing instability in this ethnically diverse breadbasket of some 60 million people.
Au Nigeria, la guerre du Biafra tue presque autant que Boko Haram

Aug 13, 2024 | afriquexxi.info | Kunle Adebajo

Depuis la fin de la guerre civile au Nigeria, en 1970, ou «guerre du Biafra» (qui s’est déroulée du 6 juillet 1967 au 15 janvier 1970), de nombreux groupes ont continué à prôner la sécession d’une République du Biafra1. Aujourd’hui, le Peuple indigène du Biafra (Indigenous People of Biafra, Ipob), créé en 2013, est la voix la plus forte.
A bunch of things you might want to know about essay writing

Jul 7, 2024 | kunleadebajo.com | Kunle Adebajo

I was recently invited by the Undergraduate Essayists Group to facilitate a workshop on — you guessed it — essay writing. Fun fact: The group has trained hundreds of young and aspiring writers across Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania. When the founder reached out via LinkedIn in May, he mentioned that many of their previous trainers were my ‘disciples’. By this, he meant they had read On Words and Awards, an e-book I released in 2018, right after I graduated. I’ll digress a little.
Enhancing journalism through AI: What are the actual possibilities?

May 19, 2024 | kunleadebajo.com | Kunle Adebajo

Earlier this year, I attended the KAS Media Africa Local Journalism Conference in Dar es Salaam and had the honour of contributing to two panel sessions: one on disinformation and the second on ‘artificial intelligence in investigative journalism’. What I am sharing in this article is essentially the same things I said during that programme. First, it’s important to note that artificial intelligence tools have been around for quite some time. They are not new.
Don’t be lazy, and 15 other random writing tips for journalists

Apr 20, 2024 | kunleadebajo.com | Kunle Adebajo

I am very suspicious of the notion that I have something valuable to teach others. So you must understand how difficult it is for me to write an article like this because who am I to presume I have enough expertise to tell others what to do and what to avoid? But then, if I’ve achieved so much with the little I know, then I must be doing something right, right?
From tiny sparks to wildfires: How misinformation sprouts in the internet era

Mar 31, 2024 | kunleadebajo.com | Kunle Adebajo

The spread of misinformation on the internet can be likened to a wildfire. It begins with a spark. Then, it is picked up by another thing that catches fire and continues to spread until everyone is talking about it. As a researcher, you come across this fact, and because it is featured in so many places — some of them very reputable — your instinct tells you it must be true. But then, just to be sure, you decide to dig a bit deeper. Then doubt starts to creep in.
More Pictures From Nigeria’s Middle Belt Crisis Have Surfaced. Some Are Misleading

Jan 30, 2024 | humanglemedia.com | Kunle Adebajo

The social media narrative around the deadly conflict in Nigeria’s Plateau state and other parts of the Middle Belt region has continued to feature misleading pictures and videos. The region has faced decades of ethnic and religious violence, which may be traced back to tensions exacerbated during the colonial period. Some aspects of the crisis are a result of a competition for resources between nomadic herders and farming host communities.
IDPs Resettled To Marte Are Fleeing, Complain Of Hunger And Insecurity

Jan 29, 2024 | humanglemedia.com | Kunle Adebajo

“The government told us they were taking us back to our homes. They also said we were not going to suffer when we returned. But here we are, suffering—”Aisha Mohammed had left New Marte, her hometown in northeastern Nigeria, in 2014 as heat from the Boko Haram insurgency spread beyond Borno state’s nerve centre and planted danger in her very backyard over 100 kilometres away. She and her children found their way to the Bakassi displacement camp in the capital city of Maiduguri.