Johnson Mayamba has more than 10 years of experience as both a reporter and editor. He has worked with different media houses but mostly the Daily Monitor, Uganda’s most influential media house under East Africa's Nation Media Group.Â
Since the start of his journalism career, Mayamba has focused on championing human rights in Uganda and has won several awards and recognitions for his reporting. He also works as a media trainer with Journalists for Human Rights.Â
In 2014, he was elected the national vice chairman of the Executive Board of Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda for a three-year-term, a position he used to advocate and lobby for freedom of expression, opinion and speech, access to information and media freedom in Uganda. He has also had different leadership roles in various capacities and organisations.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communication from Uganda Christian University and a Master of Philosophy in Human Rights and Democratisation from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is also the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow in the 2021-2022 cohort at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University.
He is a well-rounded journalist, strategic communicator, fervid human rights defender and a quick learner.
The drawing shows a selfie of himself with vegetation in the background becasue he loves nature.
