Patrick Alushula is a senior business journalist at Standard Group, the oldest private media house in east and central Africa. He has keen interest in financial journalism, insurance, banking, stock market and energy news. In 2019, Patrick won the Pan African Journalist of the Year award at the Pan Africa Re/Insurance Journalism Awards organised by Continental Reinsurance. He also won the 2018 Business Journalist of the Year award at Kenya’s Annual Journalism Excellence Awards.

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