He is currently the Knight International Journalism Fellow where he works to promote data journalism and civic innovation as a means to strengthen journalistic storytelling and audience engagement. In 2015, he helped launch Quartz Africa and worked as East Africa reporter for the news site, covering politics, business, tech and sports in the region. Prior to joining Quartz, he spent 2014-2015 as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fulbright Fellow at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, where he studied models for doing online business journalism. His writing has also appeared in the Arizona Republic, The East African and The Citizen. He tweets @shurufu.