Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu, a Nigerian journalist with HumAngle Media, has been named a 2025 FASPE Journalism Fellow, joining a select group of early-career professionals set to explore ethical leadership in Germany and Poland next year.
She’s one of 85 fellows picked by the Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Professional Ethics (FASPE), a nonprofit laser-focused on responsibility in high-stakes fields.
Nuhu’s beat is Northern Nigeria—a region battered by insurgency and brimming with untold stories. As a Managing Editor at HumAngle, she covers conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises, shining a light where headlines often fade. Her Hausa roots tie her to a deep well of oral and written tradition, giving her reporting a raw, grounded edge.
A 2024 Ochberg fellow, a 2023 Pulitzer Centre grantee, and a 2023 International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) grantee, Hauwa has done extensive work documenting the aftermath and effects of war on people through long-form reports and documentaries. She has been published on African Arguments, Aljazeera, Minority Africa, The Republic, Sahelien, and elsewhere.
Her work’s got a spark that echoes African literature—think narrative heft, real voices, the kind of stuff that could leap from newsprint to a book someday. It’s no stretch to see her bylines evolving into something bigger, especially with Nigeria’s storytelling legacy behind her.
FASPE is throwing her into the deep end come 2025. The program’s a history-meets-now bootcamp comprising trips to Germany and Poland, sites of Nazi propaganda, to unpack how ethics hold up under pressure.
Read the full list of all FASPE fellows here.
Congratulations Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu!
Bakare Oluwatobiloba
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