TechCrunch hires Kene-Okafor to cover African startups

Tage Kene-Okafor

TechCrunch has hired Tage Kene-Okafor to cover African startups.

He had been a reporter for Techpoint Africa, based in Lagos, Nigeria, since August 2019.

Kene-Okafor was also a social media intern for KariXchange before becoming a journalist.

He holds a degree in electrical, electronics and communications engineering from the University of Nigeria.

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.