Dubawa Writers Shortlisted for African Fact-Checking Awards


Some writers and fellows from the West Africa Independent Verification Platform, Dubai, have been shortlisted as finalists for the 2021 African Fact-Checking Awards.

In the Working Journalist category, Dubawa writers, Maxine Danso and Silas jonathan, alongside Ghana Program Officer Caroline Anipah, were shortlisted for a collaboration Checking the facts they signed up for the fact-checking prize.

In the fact-checking article, the authors analyzed a video in which it was claimed that the Ghanaian president was filmed accepting a bribe in 2017. The video has been shared multiple times and has continued to circulate as the country’s presidential election approached. Their findings showed that the claim was false and that the viral video was tampered with.

Two other journalists affiliated with Dubawa were also shortlisted in the Working Journalist category.

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Kunle Adebajo, a 2020 scholar, who works with HumAngle, was shortlisted for his Checking the facts on an alleged military raid on a Boko Haram enclave. Elizabeth Ogunbamowo by SaharaReporters, a 2021 scholar, was shortlisted for her Checking the facts on the claim that Twitter does not recognize President Muhammadu Buhari.

The African Fact-checking Award, now in its eighth year, is famous for annually appreciating and promoting fact-checking journalism in Africa. Organizers say the 2021 appeal received 216 entries from 28 countries, an increase from last year which recorded 192 entries from 27 African countries.

The award received nominations for the Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist and Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist categories.

The winners and finalists in each category will be announced at the awards ceremony, to be held on October 12, during the Investigative Journalism in Africa Conference.

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