Aanu Adeoye

I am a business correspondent at the FT in London where I currently cover the global pharmaceutical industry. Before that, I was west and central Africa correspondent in Lagos covering politics, business and economics, foreign affairs, technology, and several points in between across two dozen countries.

My debut book SHIFTING SANDS, a nonfiction treatise on the forces behind the shifting geopolitical dynamics in Africa and the great power competition between Russia and the West on the continent is scheduled for publication in Spring 2028 by Headline Press (UK) and Public Affairs (US). My agent is Matthew Marland of RCW Literary Agency.

I was the 2021/22 Mo Ibrahim Foundation Academy Fellow with the Russia-Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in London and served as an Associate Fellow of the Leadership Academy for two years. Previously, I was in Johannesburg as news editor of The Continent, the digital pan-African newsweekly designed to be read and shared on messaging apps. I have worked as a reporting fellow at Rest of World and managing editor at TechCabal.

My writing has appeared in the Guardian, CNN, Mail & Guardian, Vice, Foreign Policy, Al-Jazeera and elsewhere.

My feature “Gone Phishing” about an entrepreneur who graced the cover of Forbes as part of the magazine’s vaunted “30 under 30” list before being uncovered as a scammer was named in Longform’s “Best of 2020” list. And I was nominated for the Journalism Prize at The Future Awards Africa in the same year. I have provided oral evidence for the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. I moderate panels at summits and appear regularly on television, radio and podcasts around the world to provide analysis. I once went viral and became a meme after appearing on Al-Jazeera.

I have an MA in Journalism and Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, which I attended as a recipient of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung scholarship. I support Arsenal, wear shorts as much as the weather permits, love Seinfeld and re-watch Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes in Elementary as often as I can.