User:Mark Kapchanga Kwemoi

Mark Kapchanga Kwemoi is an experienced Economist and Communications Expert who specialises on China-Africa Co-operation. . A Chevening Scholar alumnus, Kapchanga is a PhD candidate researching on data journalism in the era of fake news in Kenya. was born in Kipsaina, Trans-Nzoia County on February 22, 1983. He attended Kesogon Primary School in Cherangany Constituency between 1988 and 1994 before shifting to Kissawai Primary School in Saboti Constituency where he sat for his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations in 1997. He was admitted in Nairobi School in Nairobi City County in 1998, and sat for his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination in 2001, emerging among the top performing candidates in Kenya that year. Between 2003 and 2007, Kapchanga studied Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting Option) at the University of Nairobi’s Lower Kabete Campus. He obtained Second Class Honours (Upper Division). In August 2007, he joined Nation Media Group as a Graduate Trainee, where he ended up as an economics writer covering Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania in the firm’s regional paper, The EastAfrican. Having honed his researching, writing and editing skills, in September 2010 Kapchanga shifted to Standard Media Group, Kenya’s oldest media house, as Senior Business Writer and Editor.

Intermittently, Kapchanga corresponds for Beijing-based Global Times, South Africa's Africa In Fact and many other global publications.