Stephanie Wangari of Kenya and Annie Zulu of Zambia are the 2026 winners of the Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling for their reporting that captures both the promise and the peril facing African communities today.
In her article for Rest of World, “Malawi’s new farmhand: AI that speaks the local language,” Wangari reported on how farmers in Malawi are using an AI app in their own language to achieve better farming outcomes.
Zulu’s piece in Viewfinder, “Sold for labour: The untold story of Zambian…
