About Tim Cocks
Journalist/Editor focused on Geopolitics, Climate Change, Ecology, Human Interest, Africa
Tim Cocks is British-born journalist of South African parentage. He has reported from all over Africa - mostly for Reuters - for the past two decades (aside from a stint covering the Iraq war in 2008/9).
He was formerly Reuters bureau chief for West & Central Africa. A story on the environmental disaster of Ghana’s artisanal gold mining
Tim Cocks is British-born journalist of South African parentage. He has reported from all over Africa - mostly for Reuters - for the past two decades (aside from a stint covering the Iraq war in 2008/9).
He was formerly Reuters bureau chief for West & Central Africa. A story on the environmental disaster of Ghana’s artisanal gold mining won him a SABEW award for best feature in 2019. He was on the investigations team for a series on abuses by the Nigerian military that was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
He is also the author of ‘Lagos: Supernatural City’, an intimate portrait of the life in Africa’s biggest metropolis. He is a scholar of Oriel College, Oxford, and of the British Academy.