Busani Bafana

A versatile award-winning development journalist, Busani Bafana has
more than 15 years journalism experience. He has worked for leading
newspapers in Zimbabwe, including the Financial Gazette and the
Zimbabwe Independent - where he served as Bureau Chief for Bulawayo from 1996 to 2001.

Busani is currently an independent communications specialist and a contributing writer for the Thomson Reuters
Foundation, Spore magazine and the Inter Press Service.

Busani is a writer and storyteller, using journalism skills to document innovations in all spheres of development from agriculture, food security, technology, ICTs, rural development and the transformative power of science.

He specialises in science writing and in, particular, covering the
environment and agriculture issues across Africa.

In 1998, he was named joint winner of the inaugural IUCN/Reuters Foundation Environmental Reporting Award and has in the recent years
received the following awards; CGIAR Science Award for Excellence in
Agricultural Journalism in 2010, the inaugural Ozone Africa Media
Awards in 2011 from UNEP and received the Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) 70th Commemorative Medal in 2015 in recognition of
development journalism.
Busani holds a BA degree in English and Communication Studies.
range of development issues.