Our Team
Our team is entirely African and our team members are based in several countries including Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, Mauritius and the UK.
Caleb Okereke
Caleb Okereke is a Nigerian journalist and the Co-Founder and Managing Editor at Minority Africa. As an independent journalist, he’s reported from East and Western Africa for CNN, BBC, Aljazeera, The Guardian, NPR, VICE News, Foreign Policy, and AFP. He has also worked as a correspondent for Heidi News and is currently a consultant with Mozilla for the Pocket App.
Pronouns: He/Him
Deepshikha Parmessur
Deepshikha is a Co-founder Fellowship manager at Minority Africa. Based in South Africa, she is a Mauritian Researcher and Entrepreneur who graduated from Bucknell University USA with a BA in International Relations. She is also an alumnus of the African Leadership Academy in South Africa and in 2019, she was appointed as the first-ever female Prime Minister of the Mauritius National Youth Parliament. She is a 2014 Bezos scholar, has been a member of the Commonwealth Youth Parliament in India, and was a delegate to the SADC youth parliament in 2020.
Pronouns: She/Her
Shameer Ramdin
Shameer Ramdin is a Co-Founder and Growth and Partnerships manager at Minority Africa. Previously, he was one of the founders of AVR Plato technology which is a Mauritian company that uses technology to provide innovative learning solutions across Africa. Now, Shameer particularly deploys his skill with building e-learning platforms and innovative solutions to build our learning lab and overseeing our partnerships with other newsrooms through our Advance project. He is a YALI Entrepreneur, a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur Program alumni, and was a 2021 – 2022 Chevening Scholar studying for an MSc in Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Design at Brunel University in the UK where he graduated with a distinction.
Pronouns: He/Him
Uzoma Ihejirika
Uzoma Ihejirika is a Copy Editor at Minority Africa. A writer and editor, Uzoma is an alumnus of the 2015 Writivism Creative Writing Workshop and the 2019 Ake Arts and Book Festival Fiction-Writing Workshop. He was on the longlist for the 2019 Awele Creative Trust Award and served as co-editor on Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction. His stories have been published on Brittle Paper, Afridiaspora, Kalahari Review and other publications.
Pronouns: He/Him
Sarah Nene Etim
Sarah Nene Etim is the Marketing Officer at Minority Africa based in Abuja, Nigeria.
Pronouns: She/Her
Kenneth Awom
Kenneth Awom is a Client Specialist at Minority Africa based in Nigeria. Kenneth works directly with the editorial team and partner newsrooms on our Advance project. He is a seasoned digital marketer and paid media specialist with 6+ years of experience building digital growth strategies focused on SEO, content marketing, and Adwords for small to medium-sized e-commerce sites across Africa, Europe and North America.
Pronouns: He/Him
Juliet Nkemdy
Juliet Nkemdy is a Client Specialist at Minority Africa working to establish partnerships with newsrooms across the region. Juliet holds a Bachelor’s degree in Botany from the University of Lafia, Nigeria. She’s passionate about Research and Climate Change and has also worked in local and international organisations like NIFOR, NIHORT and IITA . Based in Nigeria, in 2021, she participated in the COP26 virtual symposium and spoke on Climate Change issues facing Nigeria and adaptive mitigation measures and at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, she volunteered as a project assistant for Building Nations Initiative where she helped identify potential beneficiaries of food aid in respective target communities.
Pronouns: She/Her
Samuel Banjoko
Samuel Banjoko is a Supporting Editor at Minority Africa. He is a Nigerian writer based in Ibadan, Nigeria who enjoys writing about arts and culture.
Pronouns: He/Him
Ewomazino Obadjere
Ewomazino Obadjere is a Research Associate at Minority Africa. Zizi is also a digital creator based in Lagos who is deeply driven by social impact and self development. For the last few years, she’s been working with NGOs, and Human Rights organizations in Nigeria – including OXFAM Voice Global Nigeria, a program within the dialogue and dissent policy framework of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands that is aimed at capacity advocacy of civil society organisations and representatives of the most marginalized and discriminated groups in Nigeria. She previously also worked on a worldwide campaign to end violence against women and girls, where she specialised in peer to peer creative campaigning to shift social norms, engaging new audiences and co-creating projects with young feminists and creatives. Her experience is rooted in working with women & diverse young people on issues including access to justice, sexual & gender-based violence, gender & sexuality, and labour rights. Her keen interest in community collaborations has led to her to a number of volunteering opportunities and community leadership roles and awards.
Pronouns: She/Her
Olebogeng Mbedzi
Olebogeng Mbedzi is the Executive Engineer at Minority Africa and is responsible for building our Engineering teams as well as heading the development of software projects. Part time, Ole is a Snr. Engineering Lead at Africa Code Academy, a Silicon Valley based tech startup with operations in Africa that teaches developers to start viable businesses. He manages multiple Engineering teams, one project being the creation of Diplomas/Certificates that reside on the Blockchain for immutability, transparency and proof of ownership.