Ansbert Ngurumo

Ansbert Ngurumo is a philosopher and award-winning journalist; a human rights defender, a political analyst and newspaper editor. His journalism experience spans over 20 years. He is a former managing editor of two mainstream newspapers in Tanzania – Tanzania Daima and MwanaHALISI.

A communication strategist, Ngurumo has an academic background in literature, systematic philosophy, journalism and business management; and has mainly written for various media outlets in Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa on politics, business, human rights, health, and education.

A former chief media advisor to a presidential candidate in Tanzania (2010), Ngurumo is a founder, editor and publisher of SAUTI KUBWA, a pro-democracy website established in April 2018 to counter the wave of authoritarian rule, and to publish “forbidden news” as the Magufuli regime was struggling to suppress freedom of thought. Ngurumo is also a co-author of I AM THE STATE: A President's Whisper From Chato.

He is a political columnist and commentator, a leader, a blogger, a translator, and a fundraiser. He has previously translated two religious books on the Divine Mercy.