Manasseh Azure Awuni is a Ghanaian investigative journalist whose work has resulted in the passage of a law by Ghana’s parliament, cancellation of government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and prosecution and jailing of persons. Manasseh was named Ghana’s Journalist of the Year for 2011 (a year after graduating from journalism school) by the Ghana Journalists Association. In 2018 and 2020, the Media Foundation for West Africa named him West Africa Journalist of the Year. He was adjudged the overall best journalist at the 2023 Norbert Zongo African Prize for Investigative Journalism (PAJI-NZ). Manasseh is the author of four nonfiction books: Voice of Conscience (2016), Letters to My Future Wife (2017), The Fourth John: Reign, Rejection & Rebound (2019), Investigative Journalism in Africa: A Practical Manual (2023), and The President Ghana Never Got (2024). His short stories have appeared in The Mirror (Ghana) and online websites such as Ghanaweb.com and myjoyonline.com. Manasseh was a Nieman Journalism Fellowship at Harvard University for the 2023-2024 academic year. He studied for a B.A. in Communication Studies at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) and an M.A. in the same field at the University of Ghana. He is pursuing an M.A. in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, focusing on Creative Writing.