Kevin Bloom

Kevin Bloom

Kevin Bloom is an author and investigative journalist. He is the co-author of Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa’s Changing Fortunes, an 18-country on-the-road investigation into the forces shaping Africa in the 21st century, which was published to critical acclaim in South Africa and the United Kingdom in 2016. His first book, Ways of Staying, was shortlisted for both the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize and the Alan Paton Award, Africa’s most prestigious non-fiction prize. The book won the 2010 South African Literary Award for literary journalism.

Kevin is an Honorary Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa, where he spent three months in residence as part of the 2011 intake of the International Writing Program, sponsored by the US Department of State. He is also a recipient of the WISER Writing Fellowship at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a former supervisor in the MA Creative Writing class at the same institution.

Currently, he is a senior investigative journalist at South Africa’s Daily Maverick, and the co-founder of its award-winning environmental investigations division, “Our Burning Planet”.

Kevin’s most impactful and high-profile investigations in recent years have included exposés on the criminal cartels that were operating (until 2023) inside Eskom, South Africa’s national power utility, as well as an ongoing series on the leading role played by South Africa’s former deputy president, David Mabuza, in the infamous “land claims scam”.

Since 7 October 2023, he has written extensively — from a journalistic as well as a personal standpoint — on the conflict in the Middle East.