The newsroom is you.
Founding cohort · Oct 2026
Africa Future News Academy trains mid-career journalists to run their own mastheads — reporting, presenting and publishing on the platforms their audiences actually use: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp.
Newsrooms across the continent are shrinking. The audiences aren't. AfNA exists for the journalists in between — the ones with the skills, the sources and the standards, who now need the platform craft and the business to go it alone.
- Pan-African
- Virtual
- Mid-career only
- Launches Oct 2026
What we teach
Reporting built for the feed — vertical video, mobile-first shooting and editing, and stories that keep their journalism intact at sixty seconds.
Voice, face and format. Anchor your own bulletin from a bedroom studio, and build the on-camera ease of a nightly presenter.
The business of being your own publisher — memberships, sponsorship, syndication, and pricing your work like a professional.
Who we are
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Ondiro Oganga
Ondiro has covered the African continent from every angle a journalist can — print, online, and TV — after cutting her teeth in her native Kenya, with stints along the way at newsrooms including Bloomberg. She's since become a trusted voice at the continent's top tables, moderating high-profile conferences in Rwanda, Nigeria and beyond. In 2023, she turned that authority into her own venture, launching the Corporate Cocktail Africa podcast, which now reaches over 100,000 listeners hungry for unfiltered conversations about business and power on the continent.
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AP du Plessis
André-Pierre du Plessis spent years as an executive producer at Bloomberg TV in New York before volunteering to relocate to Johannesburg to deepen the network's African coverage — a rare move against the usual career current. He'd already built a name for himself as the creator of Tech Report, eNCA's flagship tech news show, and as managing editor at Memeburn, where his team's coverage of Africa's venture capital scene earned multiple Bookmark Awards. Earlier in his career, he launched the social media platforms for Media24's magazine stable. Now based in Cape Town, he's traded the newsroom of a global network for something of his own: Seepunt Media, an independent publisher and business news platform.
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Aletta Harrison
Filmmaker and award-winning multimedia journalist Aletta Harrison has spent 17+ years doing exactly what she now teaches: turning a camera, a deadline and a brief into a story people actually watch. She has worked for the BBC, major South African newsrooms News24 and EWN, and travelled all over Africa to shoot and edit video. As a freelancer she directed a festival-screened documentary and completed assignments for international clients like UNICEF, Mongabay and TRT World. She spent five years training the next generation of journalists in the UK, before returning to South Africa and starting her own production business, Ripple Swift. She now brings all that field-to-final-cut experience to AfNA.
Applications for the founding cohort are open. The academy launches October 2026.
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