John Maganga Petro is an award-winning journalist specialising in political and goverance reporting and documentary production across East and Southern Africa. He currently serves as a tutorial assistant at the University of Dar es Salaam and works with Mlimani Media as a producer and reporter for political programs. Mr. Petro has collaborated with institutions such as the University of Agder (Norway), Makerere University, Rwanda University, and the Institute of Social Work to produce a documentary on the lives of elders in Tanga. His documentary work extends to projects with the Commonwealth Graves Commission, where he documented WWI veterans in Tanzania, and with UNESCO’s Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), capturing the contributions of women in science in Tanzania. He also worked with Bafico Germany, a Bagamoyo-based company, on a documentary about the repatriation of ancestral remains from Germany. His excellence in journalism has been recognised with multiple awards. In 2021, he won the Excellence in Journalism Award (EJAT) for education reporting on television. That same year, he was also awarded Best Second Content Creator by Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) in a university student competition. Mr. Petro holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Dar es Salaam. He also pursued a one-semester exchange program in the Netherlands, focusing on a minor in Medialism: Creating Documentaries.