Gambian journalist Sheriff Bojang Jr has been named among 50 media personalities recognised in the 2026 Africa Media Power 50, a pan-African initiative celebrating journalists, editors, broadcasters and media entrepreneurs shaping the continent’s public conversation.
The list, released by Glass House PR, a Nairobi-based pan-African strategic communications company, brings together prominent figures whose reporting, investigations, broadcasting and editorial leadership have helped tell African stories and influence public debate.
Sheriff joins several high-profile African journalists, including CNN international correspondents Nima Elbagir and Victoria Rubadiri, BBC News presenter Waihiga Mwaura, South African journalist and author Redi Tlhabi, Ferial Haffajee of Daily Maverick, and Alan Kasujja, executive director of the Uganda Media Centre and former BBC broadcaster.
Sheriff’s inclusion adds to a career marked by international recognition, particularly for his reporting on humanitarian crises, politics and human rights. In 2015, he was a finalist at the prestigious CNN African Journalist of the Year Awards in Nairobi, Kenya, for his coverage of the devastating Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Four years earlier, in 2011, he won the Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Award in Kigali, Rwanda, for a radio documentary examining rape and gender-based violence in Senegal.
Now the Deputy Political Editor of The Africa Report, a Paris-based pan-African news magazine and digital publication, Sheriff helps lead the outlet’s political coverage across sub-Saharan Africa.
Sheriff has built a career spanning more than two decades in journalism and communications. Before joining The Africa Report, he worked with international broadcasters including Radio France Internationale, France 24, Aljazeera and Radio Netherlands Worldwide and held senior editorial positions in Gambian and regional media. He was also the head of English service at West Africa Democracy in Dakar.
He previously served as editor-in-chief of The Chroniclenewspaper in The Gambia and president of the Gambia Press Union from 2018 to 2021.
His professional experience also includes communications work with UN Women across several West African countries.
The Africa Media Power 50 initiative, presented under the theme “The media voices shaping Africa’s story”, highlights the contributions of journalists and media leaders to shaping public understanding, holding power accountable and influencing how Africa is portrayed internationally.
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