David is a writer, investigative journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared on CNN, The Africa Report, The New Yorker Magazine and The Washington Post. His work as a satirist on ‘The Other News,’ Nigeria’s answer to The Daily Show has featured in the New Yorker Magazine and in the Netflix documentary ‘Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy.’
In 2018, he was nominated by the US State Department for the 2019 Edward Murrow program for journalists under the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP). In February 2021, he won the People Journalism Prize for Africa 2020. In June 2021, he was selected as Africa’s only representative on a list of 12 writers and journalists from around the world to take part in the inaugural $1 million Substack Local program.