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In Kenya, Victims of Political Violence Want More Than a Handshake
“The president courageous enough to tell the police they did good work killing ‘thugs.’ He needs to come back here and ask our forgiveness.”

Who Decides When Survivors Can Tell Their Own Stories?
A UN court tried to stop three Rwandan rape survivors from telling their stories in their own words. When is protection paternalism?

These Are the Families Left to Reclaim Garissa’s Dead
After Kenya’s deadliest terror attack, it was hard for families to recognize their murdered loved ones.

Isaac Is Not Your Ebola Hero
Ebola killed his family, stole his friends, and forced him to burn his house and everything inside it. But Isaac is not a symbol. He is a man whose life is a reminder that at every turn, Ebola resists the heroic narrative arc.

The White Correspondent’s Burden
Being an object of compassion is not the same thing as being the subject of a story. Let’s tell Africa’s stories differently.

How Not to Write About Rape
How can we make readers ethically comfortable with our journalism choices but morally uncomfortable with the horrors we have to write about?