Nathaniel Bivan

Writer

Nathaniel Bivan is a solutions and conflict journalist whose reporting has taken him to terror zones in Kaduna, Plateau, Niger, and Borno states of northern Nigeria.

Until 2021, he was Arts Editor for Daily Trust, one of his country’s most influential newspapers. He was also Features Editor for HumAngle Media, arguably one of Africa’s fastest growing newsrooms, where he reported about the violent conflict plaguing the region. He has mentored journalists under the Solutions Journalism Africa Initiative and mostly contributes for The Christian Science Monitor among other newsrooms.

His children’s storybook, Flowerblind, was published in 2018 under the African storybook project, and his memoir on the SSA to former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on Christian Religious Affairs titled My Time as Chaplian: An Account of Venerable Obioma Onwuzurumba was released in 2022.