The Derek Ingram Press Fellowship, set up in honour of the distinguished co-founder of the CJA, is now in its second year, and thanks to the availability of extra funding, we have been able to select not one Fellow, as in the inaugural year, but two.
Wolfson College, Cambridge, which runs the Fellowship in conjunction with the CJA, will be able to cover any additional costs in doubling the number of beneficiaries, who this year come from Kenya and India.
Msanii Kimani, pictured left, a prominent Kenyan arts journalist, is a team leader and curator-in-chief of Kymsnet Media Network, a Nairobi-based arts and culture social enterprise. He is also the founder and curator-in-chief of REVEAL! Comics ConversationsEA. This is a platform for the growing area of political art in Kenya and East Africa, a subject he intends to research during his time in Cambridge.
Msanii will be joined by Syed Kaisar-ul Haq Andrabi, right, a Kashmir-based independent journalist who regularly reports for the South China Morning Post, Swedish Radio, The Daily Beast and TRT World of Turkey about politics, human rights, gender and misinformation in India. He plans to examine the erosion of press freedom in India and its impact on democracy.
The Derek Ingram Fellowship is aimed at Commonwealth journalists in mid-career, who spend 10 weeks at Wolfson College researching a subject of relevance to journalistic practice and media freedom. All their costs, including travel to and from the UK, are covered.
