Kiki Mordi an Investigative journalist, has won the People Journalism Prize for Africa 2019 (PJPA). The prize is backed by a $3000 (N1,000,000) endowment from Gatefield, a Sub-Saharan Africa public strategy firm.
She is a brave one with a high level of empathy who subjects herself to torture while seeking to expose her stories.
The prize would be received in Abuja during a World Day of Social Justice event to be hosted by Gatefield on Feb. 20, 2020.
She was selected investigating the sexual harassment on university campuses in West Africa. This resulted in a wide disciplinary action and policy reforms across the institutions that were exposed by her during this event. This is a recent work with BBC Africa eye, investigative film titled “Sex For Grades”.
She won this award alongside Fisayo Soyombo, another investigative journalism who exposed the nature of corruption within Nigeria’s criminal justice system.
Kiki is also a writer, filmaker, writer, voice over artiste, presenter, reporter and an advocate for gender equality. She is the founder of the #DocumentWomen movement that aims at tackling the erasure of women and women’s stories and produced a documentary entitled “Life At The Bay” that documented the lives of women living in the remote island, Tarkwa Bay.
She bagged a double nomination for Future Awards prize for journalism and Young Person of the Year.
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