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I’m watching the live feed of the Taylor trial happening in The Hague. I’m sitting at my hotel in Freetown, with a few Sierra…
Read MoreI’m watching the live feed of the Taylor trial happening in The Hague. I’m sitting at my hotel in Freetown, with a few Sierra…
Read MoreGraeme Wood has a freakin’ pitch-perfect piece on the Central African Republic in Foreign Policy’s failed states issue. It’s old news to those of…
Read MoreFreetown, Sierra Leone — In Freetown recently, I came face to face with something that made me a believer: a trash truck.
Read MoreIn Freetown recently, I came face to face with something that made me a believer: a trash truck. A believer in what? That depends…
Read MoreIn the wake of the Kampala bombings, I’ve been exchanging emails with my friend and colleague Allan Brian Ssenyonga. Allan is a Ugandan freelance…
Read MoreIn an effort to be productive in my criticism, here are nearly two dozen or so Western journalists I think do good work in…
Read MoreBut it’s not being white on the Dark Continent. It’s that there are so many other bad white reporters who came through before us….
Read MoreAl Shabaab bombs Kampala threatens Bujumbura, which now feels like my second home. Journalists and political candidates are turning up dead in Rwanda. New…
Read MoreWay up there in Canada…. Half of the sexual assault staff at a Canadian hospital center is sick, or tired — literally — and…
Read MoreToday I withdrew cash at a bank in Freetown. A dollar here is worth almost 4,000 leones, and the largest bill they print is…
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