The AFRICAN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR AWARD is the continent’s premier investigative journalism award. Run by the Wits Centre for Journalism and supported by Absa Africa, the award recognises outstanding investigative reporting from across Africa that reveal untold stories, hold the powerful to account, question those in public life and serve the public interest.
The winner stands to win US$5 000 while flights, accommodation and fees to attend the AIJC conference are covered for all finalists.
The award is open to all African journalists or teams of journalists working in any media for stories from and about Africa published or broadcast in African media.
Entries for the award open in June 2025.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
2024
- Blanshe Musinguzi (Uganda) How Congo Trees are smuggled through East Africa
- Manasseh Azure Awuni, Adwoa Adobea-Owusu and Evans Aziamor-Mensah (Ghana) The GH₵ 3 Billion Lie
2023
- Tom Odula (Kenya) Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea
- Dewald van Rensburg (runner-up) (South Africa) The Laundry
