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Sunday Dare

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Sunday Dare, a 2010/2011 Academic Research Fellow at Oxford University and a 2001 Nieman Fellow, is special adviser for media to Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State in Nigeria. He previously served as general editor The News and Tempo, two weekly newsmagazines based in Lagos, and worked for Voice of America in Washington, D.C. for nine years as the chief of the Hausa Service, Africa Division. He is a social media expert operating multiple citizen journalism news sites.

Sunday Dare, NF ’01

Sunday Dare, NF ’01

As editor of The News magazine during a brutal regime in the 1990s, Dare risked his life to report on corruption and other problems in Nigeria During my Nieman year,…
September 24, 2013

Chinua Achebe: Unstoppable, Unbeatable

Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, author of “Things Fall Apart,” died on March 11. Photo by Craig Ruddle/The Associated PressThe story of Africa and the insight many have into her traditions…
March 22, 2013

A Journalist Joins the Nigerian Government—If Only for A While

‘I wanted my freedom back—the freedom to be able to tell truth to power.’
March 30, 2010

Dictatorship and Democracy Require Different Kinds of Courage

‘Officials begged the magazine not to pursue the story and then they enticed us with rewards. All efforts to derail our reporting failed.’
June 15, 2006

Terror Unleashed

Dare’s book was published in 2007 under the title “Guerrilla Journalism: Dispatches From the Underground”Sunday Dare has written a book, “Voices From the Trenches: The Story of Guerrilla Journalism Under…
June 15, 2006