Business Times Editor wins top award
BUSINESS REPORTER
Business Times Editor Ndamu Sandu has won the Fintech Journalist of the Year Award 2022 for Anglophone Africa.
Felix Abely, Editor-in-Chief of Congo Media Plus (Democratic Republic of Congo) won the award for the Francophone region.
The winners were selected after a rigous training from the fintech-focused Finance Journalism Training Programme.
The programme was run by banking group, Ecobank, and AMA Academy, the pan-African e-learning platform providing free training to journalists on the continent.
The ground-breaking programme provided five weeks of training modules covering the history of financial services, blockchain, open banking and the fintech transformation of financial services and regulation.
Eloine Barry, AMA Academy MD said: “The Finance Journalism Training Programme delivers on the huge need to provide high-level knowledge and understanding to African journalists on the emerging trends in finance, and especially those relating to the rapidly evolving fintech landscape. It is particularly fitting that we are collaborating with the Ecobank Group for this programme as it shares our vision of creating a world where everyone should be able to learn about the new trends that affect the development of our continent.”
Christiane Bossom, Ecobank Group’s Communications Manager, said the fintech training course aligns with Ecobank’s strategy to support the growth of the African fintech ecosystem.
“We applaud this first graduating cohort for their willingness and curiosity during these training modules. They and future attendees of this programme will help to ensure the robust media reporting necessary to drive public education and awareness of the financial sector across the African continent. We also thank our partner AMA Academy for successfully implementing the programme,” Bossom said.
On behalf of the winners, Sandu said: “We pay tribute to pan-African bank, Ecobank, and its partner African Media Agency for delivering a programme that gives journalists the right toolbox to report with real knowledge and understanding on the fintech revolution.”
In August 2022 over 400 journalists from 30 African countries were selected to participate in the Financial Journalism Training Programme.
The winners were selected by a jury of experts and journalists for writing the best fintech articles in their final assignment of the programme.
The two winners were given free access to the Africa Financial Industry summit.
