Adeleke departs Rest of World

David Adeleke

Rest of World Africa editor David Adeleke has left the news publication after two years.

Adeleke previously worked freelance for various publications, including The Continent.

Previously, he served as managing editor of Business Insider Africa and held editorial roles at Ventures Africa and TechCabal. He also launched and runs a Substack “Communiqué,” which talks about Africa’s tech scene.

He was chosen to be a Substack Grow Fellow and was a Media and Journalism Fellow at the Charles Koch Institute.

Adeleke graduated from Covenant University and has a certificate in Storytelling for Modern Media from Yale University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.