Benon Herbert Oluka
Executive Director
Benon Herbert Oluka is a seasoned multimedia journalist and a human resource management professional. In a career spanning nearly 20 years, he has served as a reporter and editor for several local and international media organisations. He also served as a mentor for the African Union Media Fellowship’s 2023-2024 cohort.
Oluka holds a master’s degree in international communication from the University of Leeds (United Kingdom), a bachelor’s degree with honours in journalism and media studies from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), and a bachelor’s degree in human resource management from Makerere University (Uganda).
Oluka’s work has been recognised more than two dozen times, including thrice on the African continent as winner of the 2008 Akintola Fatoyinbo Africa Education Journalism Award (First Prize, English category), the 2011 CNN-MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Award (Tourism category) and the Thomson Reuters’ 2011 Niall FitzGerald Prize for Young African Journalists.