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Khadija Sharife
Sharife was born in 1986 in South Africa. Apart from being a journalist, she’s also a writer who has penned articles for Forbes, The Economist, Al Jazeera, and London Review of Books to name a few publications.
Sharife has also been a correspondent for The Africa Report magazine, an assistant editor of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and co-author of Tax us if you can (Africa). She’s been a visiting scholar for the Center for Civil Society (CCS) in 2011, a fellow at the World Policy Institute, and organized the African branch of the European Union-backed Environmental Trade and Liabilities Project.
Sharife is currently employed with the Africa desk of Investigative Dashboard and the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR).