HumAngle

What HumAngle does

HumAngle is an independent nonprofit digital media organization founded in March 2020 in Abuja, Nigeria, that produces investigative and multimedia journalism on conflict, security, humanitarian crises, and development issues across Africa. Its editorial footprint spans more than 20 African countries with a specialization in the Lake Chad Basin and northeastern Nigeria (Boko Haram, farmer-herder conflict, displacement). The platform operates a portfolio of five podcast series (Birbishin Rikici, The Crisis Room, Vestiges Of Violence, Humanitarian Voices, Into The Depths), interactive data tools (Insecurity Tracker, Missing Persons Dashboard with 25,000+ ICRC-linked records, Election Insecurity Tracker, Highway Extortion tracker, HumAngle Tracker), GIS mapping at maps.humangle.org, an Abandoned Communities Database, a monthly magazine, and a Transitional Justice Reporting Guide co-developed with ATJLF in June 2025. Core technology is a digital journalism platform combining text publishing, multimedia, data visualization, and GIS, supported by a freelance pitch program that accepts quarterly submissions from across Africa and provides video editing, data analysis, illustration, and OSINT resources.

HumAngle serves four primary audiences: the general public in Africa seeking under-reported conflict stories; policymakers and government officials requiring evidence-based situation analysis; humanitarian organizations and NGOs needing reliable field reporting and data; and fellow journalists and media professionals who use HumAngle as a source and collaborative partner. Distribution is fully digital and free, spanning humanglemedia.com, YouTube, podcast platforms, social media (Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Telegram), WhatsApp, and email newsletters, with content available for republishing under attribution. The publication has earned the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Journalism (2021), the African Fact-checking Award (2022), and the Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling (2023).

The business model is a nonprofit public-interest journalism operation. Revenue is generated through foundation and NGO grants (MacArthur Foundation, Media Development Investment Fund, Open Society Initiative for West Africa, Pulitzer Centre, Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund), reader donations via support.humanglemedia.com, a paid HumAngle+ membership tier, and pass-through freelance pitch funding. Specific revenue figures are not publicly disclosed. The organization maintains strategic partnerships with CCIJ (collaborative investigations), CJID (journalist safety advocacy and press attack tracking), ATJLF (transitional justice editorial guide), and Code for Africa (data journalism), positioning itself as both a newsroom and an ecosystem convener for accountability journalism in West Africa and beyond.

Name

HumAngle

Legal name

HumAngleMedia.com

Website

https://humanglemedia.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

HumAngle is a nonprofit digital media organization founded in 2020 in Abuja, Nigeria, producing investigative multimedia journalism on conflict, security, and humanitarian crises across 20+ African countries, with data dashboards, podcasts, and a continental freelancer network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital News Media / Investigative Journalism

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311)

akta.pro primary industry

Human Rights Monitoring, Documentation & Advocacy (BPADAGAK)

Keywords

• Investigative journalism
• Conflict reporting
• Humanitarian media
• Security analysis
• Digital newsroom

Headquarters

HQ city

Abuja

HQ country

Nigeria

HQ region

Africa

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations from readers and public: HumAngle accepts donations from the public through support.humanglemedia.com to ensure continued public service coverage.
2. Foundation and NGO grants: HumAngle receives funding from development partners including MacArthur Foundation, Media Development Investment Fund, Open Society Initiative For West Africa, Pulitzer Centre, Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund, and other media development organizations.
3. Freelance pitch funding: HumAngle funds investigative story pitches from freelancers, providing resources including video editing, data, illustrative, and open-source intelligence resources.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

HumAngle is a non-profit digital newsroom that publishes investigative journalism, long-form features, podcasts, video, photo essays, interactive maps, and data dashboards focused on conflict, security, humanitarian crises, and development across Africa, with particular depth on Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin. It also produces policy briefs, a printed magazine, and a paid membership programme (HumAngle+) that offers additional reporting and analysis to supporters.

Product overview

HumAngle is a media organization focused on conflict reporting and development journalism in Africa. The company operates as a platform offering multiple content delivery channels including podcasts (Birbishin Rikici, The Crisis Room, Vestiges Of Violence, Humanitarian Voices, Into The Depths), interactive data tools (Insecurity Tracker, Missing Persons Dashboard, Maps, HumAngle Tracker), investigative projects (Election Insecurity Tracker, Highway Extortion, Abandoned Communities Database), publications (Magazine, Transitional Justice Reporting Guide), and a subscription service (HumAngle+). The portfolio is organized around coverage areas including accountability, armed violence, climate, displacement, disinformation, election security, extremism, gender, humanitarian crises, and human rights.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Insecurity Tracker

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 25,000 missing persons tracked in northeastern Nigeria through ICRC partnerships
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund (ATJLF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerATJLF partnered with HumAngle to develop the Transitional Justice Reporting Guide for African Newsrooms, published in June 2025. ATJLF is a public charity supporting transitional justice initiatives in West Africa with $2.68 million in grants committed.
• Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHumAngle collaborates with CCIJ on investigative reports including the farmer-herder crisis investigation and Namibia sanitation series. CCIJ brings together investigative reporters, visual storytellers, and data scientists to investigate global issues affecting underserved communities.
• Centre For Journalism Innovation & Development (CJID)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCJID is a Nigerian media think tank that partnered with HumAngle on journalist safety initiatives and press freedom advocacy. CJID organized journalists' safety summits and developed legislative measures to protect journalists in Nigeria.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Daily Maverick: South Africa-based digital investigative journalism outlet with pan-African reach and a strong subscription and membership model. Comparable in its digital-first investigative orientation and Africa-wide editorial ambitions, though anchored in South Africa rather than West Africa.
• ProPublica: Pioneering U.S.-based nonprofit investigative journalism outlet funded by foundations and reader donations. Comparable structurally as a nonprofit investigative model demonstrating how foundation- and reader-funded accountability journalism can scale, though in a far larger U.S. market.
• The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: UK-based nonprofit investigative outlet partnering with global newsrooms on cross-border accountability reporting. Comparable as a grant-funded investigative model producing high-impact accountability journalism across multiple beats and geographies.
• International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR): Abuja-based nonprofit newsroom dedicated to investigative reporting in Nigeria, including security, governance, and accountability beats. Comparable as a Nigerian investigative journalism nonprofit that has influenced the same journalistic talent pool.
• The New Humanitarian: Formerly IRIN, The New Humanitarian is a nonprofit newsroom focused on humanitarian crises globally with original multimedia reporting. Directly comparable to HumAngle's humanitarian-focused accountability journalism model, with a longer track record and similar grant-dependent revenue structure.
• Premium Times: Abuja-based Nigerian investigative journalism outlet and former employer of senior HumAngle staff. Directly comparable as Nigeria-focused investigative journalism with similar coverage beats (security, corruption, accountability) and overlap in reporting culture and freelancer networks.
• Africa Check: Africa's first independent fact-checking organization operating across multiple African countries, also grant-funded. Comparable as an Africa-wide nonprofit journalism outlet with a thematic specialization (fact-checking) analogous to HumAngle's security/conflict specialization.
• The Continent: Pan-African weekly digital news outlet distributed via WhatsApp and web. Comparable in its pan-African editorial ambition from a digital-first base and its use of non-traditional distribution channels to reach African readers.
• Bellingcat: Open-source intelligence-driven investigative outlet running global investigations, including across African conflicts. Closely comparable in its use of OSINT, data dashboards, and evidence-based accountability reporting, though Bellingcat's geographic scope is much broader.
• Code for Africa: Pan-African civic technology and data-journalism organization that is itself a HumAngle partner. Comparable as a continent-spanning African data-journalism platform combining investigations with public-interest data tools and civic-tech capacity building.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/HumAngle_
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCRMfhYOUmmUHaH9ILvyeL_g
• Facebookfacebook.com/HumAngle.Media
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/humangle
• Instagraminstagram.com/humanglemedia

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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