Samantha Asumadu

Samantha Asumadu is a journalist and former documentary filmmaker .

She has written for the Guardian, the Telegraph, Open Democracy, New Statesman and been interviewed on Radio 4 Womans hour, LBC, BBC World and other BBC programmes.

She was based in East Africa from 2007, where she reported on Acid Attacks, Blood Minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Kampala terrorist bombings of 2010 for news outlets including CNN, Deutsche Welle, France 24 and Agence France Presse.

She directed and co-produced her first film for Aljazeera English in 2009. The Super Ladies is about three Ugandan women rally drivers and a race with a dramatic outcome.

In 2016 Samantha was a judge at the Editorial Intelligence UK Comment Awards. In 2022 she was a finalist for the Paul Foot Investigative and Campaigning Journalism Award and the National Investigation of the Year, Media Freedom Award.

She's currently reporting for the documentary podcast series, Trapped: The IPP Prisoner Scandal.