Benon Herbert Oluka
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Benon Herbert Oluka is a seasoned multimedia journalist from Uganda. In a career spanning nearly 20 years, he has served as a reporter and editor for several local and international media organisations. He also served as a mentor for the African Union Media Fellowship’s 2023-2024 cohort.
Oluka’s work has been recognized more than two dozen times, including thrice on the African continent as winner of the 2008 Akintola Fatoyinbo Africa Education Journalism Award (first prize, English category), the 2011 CNN-MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Award (tourism category), and the Thomson Reuters’ 2011 Niall FitzGerald Prize for Young African Journalists.
Oluka holds a master's degree in international communication from the University of Leeds (U.K.), a bachelor's degree with honors in journalism and media studies from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), and a bachelor of human resource management degree from Makerere University (Uganda).
