Vignettes, African Great Lakes, Audio, DRC, Photography, Rwanda From the first days back in Rwanda For you image-lovers, here’s a few photographs from my first few days back in the Great Lakes… One of the reasons I went… Read More
Vignettes, Elsewhere, Video From Cote d’Ivoire, a Happy New Year dance This is irresistible, and the Aaninka dance troupe is fantastic. Makes me want to move to Cote d’Ivoire and apprentice myself to those women…. Read More
MultiMedia, Award winner, Christian Science Monitor, Liberia, Poverty, Reporting, Women's Rights In Africa, Inheriting a Field or a Feud? Saniquellie, Liberia — A trip to a rice farm near here is like visiting a West African version of the Secret Garden. There’s a… Read More
MultiMedia, Christian Science Monitor, Reporting, US, Whimsy The Safety Geeks Who Rescue Us Before Disaster Happens The best indication that John Drengenberg has been doing his job well, for 40 years, is that you’ve never heard of him. Most of… Read More
MultiMedia, Global Post, Justice & Aftermath, More Work, Reporting, Rwanda Rwanda’s Genocide, 15 Years Later This is the first part of a three-part series. See Part 2: “One community works for forgiveness.” And see the slideshow in this story…. Read More
MultiMedia, Global Post, Justice & Aftermath, Reporting, Rwanda Survivors Start to Confront Trauma This the second part of a three-part series. See “Part 1: Survivors start to confront trauma.” See Part 3, the slide show “Remembering in… Read More
MultiMedia, Christian Science Monitor, Reporting, US, Whimsy New York’s Other Skyline — Old-School Water Towers Squint a little and the sleek modern cityscape reveals old-fashioned water towers in use on most buildings over six stories. On the ground, New… Read More
MultiMedia, Christian Science Monitor, Justice, Justice & Aftermath, Reporting, Sierra Leone A Former Rebel Faces the Farmer He Mained GPAINGBANKORDU, SIERRA LEONE — Before the war, when his village and his family and his body were whole, Temba Kekura was a farmer. He… Read More
Audio, Liberia, Video In Liberia, settling a family land feud In this audio slideshow for the Christian Science Monitor, Yar Gegh talks about how she used Liberia’s new laws on equal property rights to… Read More