Our Work

The experience our founding consultants bring to AMC — and the programmes we are now building together for the first time.

Organisations our founding consultants have worked with

BBC European Union Transparency International Kenya Forbes Penguin Random House World Economic Forum WAN-IFRA Robert Bosch Stiftung

Active Engagements

What Our Consultants Are Working On Today

Our consultants remain actively engaged in the field — writing, advising, judging, and leading organisations across the continent and internationally.

Active Today
Ongoing
Business Journalism · Pan-Africa

Forbes Africa & African Business Magazine

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Chris Bishop
Ongoing

Chris Bishop continues as monthly columnist for African Business magazine (London) and maintains editorial advisory relationships with Forbes Africa — keeping AMC at the centre of the continent's business narrative.

LondonPublication
MonthlyColumn
Board Leadership · Pan-Africa

Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA)

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Peter Burdin
Ongoing

Peter Burdin Co-Founded ESSA — a pan-African education charity partnering with the Bosch Foundation, Cambridge University, and the African Association of Universities to improve learning outcomes across the continent.

Pan-AfricaReach
CambridgePartnership
Journalism Awards · International

One World Media & WAN-IFRA Jury

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Frenny Jowi
Ongoing

Frenny Jowi serves as jury member for both One World Media Awards (2023 & 2024) and WAN-IFRA (2023 & 2024) — shaping international standards for global journalism recognition alongside the world's leading media organisations.

2023–24Tenure
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AMC Programmes

In Development — Building Together

Africa Media Collective is a new collective. These are our first joint programmes — currently in development. We publish full case studies as engagements are delivered. If your organisation would like to be among our first clients, we'd like to hear from you.

In Development
In Planning
Media Development · East Africa

New Programme — East African Media Initiative

Coming Soon

Africa Media Collective is developing a new initiative for East African newsrooms. Details to follow — reach out now if your organisation would like to explore partnership opportunities at the formative stage.

Training · Multi-Country

Journalism Capacity Building Programme

In Planning

A new training initiative building on our track record of reaching 100+ journalists across Africa. Curriculum in development — contact us to register your newsroom's interest before the programme is full.

Founding Track Record

Projects Delivered by Our Consultants — Individually

Before Africa Media Collective existed as a collective, its founding consultants built careers that shaped African media at the highest levels. The projects below were delivered individually. They represent the depth of experience, institutional relationships, and editorial standards that every AMC engagement draws upon.

Founding Track Record
Verified
Broadcast · Kenya

Ms. President Programme

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Frenny Jowi
Completed
The Brief Women in Kenyan public life were systematically absent from national media. EU funders wanted a programme that could shift this at genuine scale.
The Work Frenny Jowi designed and led a €2M EU-funded reality TV format placing women candidates at the centre of political storytelling — broadcast across all 47 counties.
The Impact 5 million weekly viewers. The most-watched gender-focused media programme in East African history.
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5MWeekly Viewers
47Counties
Publishing · Pan-Africa

Forbes Africa — Founding Edition

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Chris Bishop
Founded 2011
The Brief No credible pan-African business title existed to tell Africa's wealth story on its own terms. The Forbes brand needed a local edition built from the ground up.
The Work Chris Bishop launched the first African edition of Forbes in 2011, building the editorial team, defining the content strategy, and establishing the publication's commercial foundations.
The Impact Won the Sanlam Award for Financial Journalism in year one. Still published today as Africa's premier business title.
2011Founded
SanlamAward
Breaking News · Global

BBC Nelson Mandela Project

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Peter Burdin
Sony Gold Award
The Brief The world's largest news networks were preparing for an event of unprecedented global significance — Nelson Mandela's state funeral — with no margin for error.
The Work Peter Burdin assembled and led a 100-person BBC team across ten days of continuous planning and live global coverage, coordinating simultaneous broadcasts across multiple platforms.
The Impact Won the Sony Gold Award. Widely cited as a landmark in international broadcast journalism.
100Team Members
10Days Live
SonyGold Award
Convening · East Africa

Kenya Media Week

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Frenny Jowi
Founded 2016
The Brief Kenya's journalism ecosystem had no forum where journalists, funders, editors, and policymakers could convene around shared challenges in one room.
The Work Frenny Jowi founded Kenya Media Week in 2016 — creating the first cross-sector dialogue platform for African media professionals, combining editorial sessions with policy debate and funder engagement.
The Impact Replicated in Uganda. Established a replicable template for journalism convening across East Africa.
2016Founded
Global Forums · Multi-City

World Economic Forum Coverage

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Chris Bishop
Multi-year
The Brief African economic narratives at the world's top policy forums were consistently shaped by external voices — AMC's presence sought to change that from within the room.
The Work Chris Bishop presented and moderated at WEF Davos, WEF Africa, IMF Spring Meetings (Washington), EU–Africa Business Conference (Brussels), and Economist Africa Business Conference (Dubai 2021).
The Impact AMC's voice at these tables positioned African business journalism at the highest levels of global economic decision-making.
WEFDavos
IMFWashington
EUBrussels

Published Works

Books That Carried Africa's Story
to a Global Readership.

Chris Bishop's Penguin Random House catalogue brought African wealth, business, and economic transformation to audiences who had never read the continent on its own terms.

Africa's Billionaires book cover

Africa's Billionaires

Penguin Random House ↗

A defining portrait of Africa's wealthiest individuals — their origins, industries, and what their rise means for the continent's economic future. Required reading at global investment forums.

Chris Bishop
The BEE Billionaires book cover

The BEE Billionaires

Penguin Random House ↗

The inside story of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa — the figures who shaped it, the deals that defined it, and the complex legacy it leaves for the next generation of African business.

Chris Bishop

Recognition

Awards from the most respected bodies in global journalism.

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Information is Beautiful Gold Award, 2022
Frenny Jowi — Data4Change
Awarded by the world's leading data visualisation community for outstanding use of data to drive public understanding. One of fewer than ten Gold recipients globally in 2022.
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Sony Gold Award — Nelson Mandela Funeral
Peter Burdin — BBC
The Sony Radio Academy Gold Award is the highest recognition in broadcast journalism. Won for the BBC's global coverage of Mandela's state funeral — coordinating 100 journalists across 10 days of live output.
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Sanlam Award for Financial Journalism, 2011
Chris Bishop — Forbes Africa
South Africa's most prestigious financial journalism award. Won in Forbes Africa's inaugural year — validating the publication's editorial foundation from day one.
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PICA Editor of the Year, 2014
Chris Bishop
The Publishing Industry of Communication Award for editorial leadership. Recognised Chris Bishop's impact on the standard and ambition of African business publishing at a continental level.
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One World Media Jury Member, 2023 & 2024
Frenny Jowi
One World Media is the UK's leading award body for journalism covering the Global South. Jury appointment signals peer recognition of expertise and editorial standing at an international level.
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WAN-IFRA Jury Member, 2023 & 2024
Frenny Jowi
WAN-IFRA represents over 3,000 news publishers in 120 countries. Serving on its awards jury places Frenny Jowi among the global gatekeepers defining editorial excellence in world journalism.

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