Sarah Wild

Sarah Wild is a British-South African science journalist and author. In November 2017 she became the first African to win a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.^[1][2]

Wild is the author of Searching African Skies: The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa’s Quest to Hear the Songs of the Stars (2012)^[3] and Innovation: Shaping South Africa through Science (2015),^[4][5] which was published in Afrikaans as Innovasie: Hoe wetenskap Suid-Afrika vorm.^[6] In 2023 she published Human Origins: A Short History,^[7] which was published in Chinese in 2024.^[8]

Wild was named the Siemens pan-African Profile Awards for science journalism winner in 2013,^[9] and received the Dow Technology and Innovation Reporting award at the 2015 CNN Multichjoice African Journalist of the Year awards.^[10]

Wild has written for Nature,^[11] Science,^[12] Scientific American,^[13] The Guardian, The Observer,^[14] The Atlantic,^[15] The Economist, Undark Magazine, Quartz,^[16] AfricaCheck, Mail & Guardian,^[17] and Business Day.^[18]