Aanu Adeoye

Aanu Adeoye is a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times based in Lagos from where he covers west and central Africa. He writes about foreign affairs, politics, business and economics in the region and how these forces intersect. Before the FT, he was Mo Ibrahim Foundation Fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House where he researched Russia-Africa affairs and he served as an Associate Academy Fellow of the institute. He has presented his research on Russia-Africa affairs at conferences in London, Paris, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and provided oral evidence to the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on the recent spate of coups in the Sahel. In his decade-long career as a journalist, he has had full time roles as an editor and reporter in South Africa and Nigeria. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Mail & Guardian, CNN, Vice and elsewhere. He appears regularly on TV, radio and podcasts around the world, including on the BBC, Monocle Radio and others.

His website is https://www.aanuadeoye.com/