Tony Adam Mochama (born 9 May 1975) is a Kenyan poet, writer, author and a senior journalist[1] at The Nation Media Group.
[2] Mochama is a three-time winner of the Burt Awards[3] for African Young Adult Literature and he is also a recipient of the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship.
[4][5] Mochama attended Catholic Primary School and graduated in 1993 from the Starehe Boys’ Centre[6] founded by the late Geoffrey Griffin who spotted his creative talent.
In the early 2003, Mochama began to work for ‘eXpression Today,’ a bi-weekly newspaper dedicated mostly to the issues of press freedom.
Mochama then sued Shailja Patel and Prof. Wambui Mwangi for four million Kenyan shillings in punitive damage to his reputation, under the Civil Suit number 399 of 2015.