Our Team

Chernoh Alpha M. Bah

Chernoh Alpha M. Bah is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History and Mellon Cluster Fellow in the Program of African Studies (PAS) at Northwestern University. Bah’s research focuses on the history of medicine and medical experimentation in West Africa. Before coming to Northwestern University, Bah worked extensively in West Africa as a journalist, political activist, and writer. He is the author of The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Corporate Gangsters, Multinationals, and Rogue Politicians (2015), and Neocolonialism in West Africa: A Collection of Articles and Essays (2014), and is currently the editor-in-chief of the Africanist Press, a media agency and investigative journalism project focusing on corruption, democracy, and free speech in Africa. His investigative journalism has been featured on the BBC, Radio France International, AFP, DW, among others.

Baboucarr Ceesay

Baboucarr Ceesay is former Vice President of Gambian Press Union (GPU) and has more than twenty years of experience as a journalist in The Gambia. Ceesay is currently the CEO of Liberty Media Company Limited and Editor-in-Chief of The Monitor in The Gambia. In the course of the last twenty years, he worked for The Gambia Daily, Foroyaa, Today, The Voice, and The Daily News. Ceesay was also the Gambian correspondent for the Kenya based Africa Review and Africa News TV.

Christine Cooper

Christine Cooper holds a PhD in physical anthropology and is employed at the Archaeology Department/Office of Culture of the Principality of Liechtenstein as well as at the Anthropology Department of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern in Switzerland. Both her master’s and doctoral research focused on skeletal trauma in victims of medieval and post-medieval battles. Further research topics include palaeopathology, osteoarchaeology, and funerary practices.

Pa Kemo Jarju

Pa Kemo Jarju is an editorial assistant with the UK-based online Gambian newspaper, JollofNews. He holds a BA Hons in journalism from the University of Worcester in the UK, and has practiced journalism for many years. Jarju worked as a reporter and news editor for the now defunct Gambian newspapers, The Independent and Daily Observer. His articles have been widely published in a number of newspapers in the Gambia and the UK.

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi is a Nigerian multimedia investigative journalist and member of the Reuters Institute’s Oxford Climate Journalism Network. Her specialization includes the use of OSINT investigation skills, fact-checking, data scrapping, and forensic analysis of websites and documents. Elfredah has investigated and covered several stories on climate change, including environmental pollution caused by British Shell and its successor, Eroton. She also helped expose the impact of constant gas flaring by the Italian company Eni/Agip, and the failure of Total E&P to pay compensation to host communities in Nigeria after destroying farmlands and biodiversity. Her work has been supported by reputable global media organizations, including the European Journalism Fund, the Pulitzer Centre, Civil Forum for Asset Recovery, Earth Journalism Network, among others.

Amadu Massally

Amadu Massally is trained as a professional accountant and information systems auditor. After working for Fortune 500 companies like American Express and PriceWaterhouseCoopers he returned home in 2009 to implement a national project. By the time he returned to the United States in 2014, Massally had been instrumental in setting up the Millennium Challenge Corporation program and the Open Government Partnership in Sierra Leone, among other things. He has been an advocate for good governance in Sierra Leone consistently for almost twenty years. Massally considers himself an activist for global development.

Anne B. Wallis

Anne Baber Wallis (MHS, PhD) is a reproductive epidemiologist interested in social and biological causes of disease and an array of methodology and theoretical approaches to improve maternal health and neonatal outcomes globally. She has ongoing research projects based in Romania and India, and she collaborates with researchers elsewhere in eastern Europe and west Africa. Anne has been a Fulbright scholar in Armenia and The Gambia. Dr. Wallis was trained in maternal and child health, and health policy at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She studied history and English as an undergraduate at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dr. Wallis has taught maternal and child health, epidemiology theory, introduction to epidemiology, qualitative research methods, urban health, and evaluation research. She has led study abroad trips to Romania and India. She provides consultation to Elsevier’s Evidence Based Medicine Center, Clinical Solutions group on synthesis of research findings, particularly from mixed-methods and qualitative studies.