“Thank you for applying for Code for Africa’s Climate Change Fact Checker Fellowship. We reviewed your application and are delighted to let you know that you have been selected to participate in the fellowship. Congratulations!”

Receiving this congratulatory email three days before my 30th birthday was so amazing, and I couldn’t keep my excitement to myself. I began to reflect on the application process, and how competitive it was. I recalled that the spot was for eight fact-checkers from Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa. My selection meant that I was one of the eight, and my excitement grew again.

The fellowship is my first, in many regards. It was the longest fellowship I ever won, it was the most financially rewarding fellowship in my over 8 years of journalism career, and it was the first fact-checking fellowship I ever had.


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