Justus Wanzala
Country (Nationality)
Kenya
Grantee Title
Justus is Kenyan journalist who extensively writes about environment conservation, Climate change, sustainable development and science issues.
Grantee Description
Justus is Kenyan journalist who extensively writes about environment conservation, Climate change, sustainable development and science issues. As news editor/reporter at the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation in Nairobi he also contributes stories to various publications. These include: the Inter Press Services News Agency (IPS) and Reuters AlterNet, The Thomson Reuter Foundation AlterNet page (http://news.trust.org), the Intellectual Property Watch (https://www.ip-watch.org/), The International Press Syndicate (https://www.indepthnews.net/), The Spore Magazine (http://spore.cta.int/en) and has also contributed articles to Research Africa (www.researchresearch.com/africa),a continental science policy magazine based in Cape Town, South Africa where he completed a nine-month fellowship through sponsorship of Canada’s International Development Research Centre in 2008.
He was also a member of the first intake of African and Arab science Journalists in a two-year-long international mentoring programme beginning in 2006 by the World Federation of Science Journalists. He posses a Diploma in Journalism from the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication in Nairobi and a Bachelor of Arts degree in development studies from UNISA (University of South Africa) and is completing a Masters Degree in Development Studies at Kenya’s Jomo University of Agriculture and Technology.
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