About me
Amaka Okoye is a seasoned and resolute journalist who has practiced in and outside of Nigeria. She has degrees in both Journalism and Maritime Administration and Management. She is currently a Correspondent for German Broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW.)
She has covered varied beats on women and children, women’s rights and justice, illegal migration, sex trafficking, human angle reports, criminal justice and documentaries on prisoners in Nigeria’s biggest prisons, Kirirkiri maximum and medium correctional centers.
Amaka has covered humanitarian crises, including the reality of internally displaced persons as a result of Boko Haram insurgency now scattered in several camps. She has travelled to 29 states out of the 36 states in the country with the hope of traveling to all the states pursuing the most uncommon and untold stories.
Amaka is a Fellow of the Prestigious Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and a Fellow at the Young Africa Media Fellowship. She is an Alumnus of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
And recently named among the Most Powerful Women In Journalism in Nigeria. She has many awards to her name for outstanding coverage of human crisis and suffering of those affected by conflicts.