To the anonymous Google searcher, I love you
Someone found my blog by searching “Africa bite.” I can only assume there’s a wonderful person somewhere in Rwanda looking up a phone number…
Read MoreAfrican Great Lakes
Postpone that volcano hike, maybe?
On top of all the displacement, rebel attacks, and other insecurities, eastern Congo is apparently due for a volcano eruption. The good news? There’s…
Read MorePulitzers Take II: Congo wins (sort of)
So I took my Pulitzer-day swipe at newspaper publishers yesterday, and today I am in slightly better humor and want to congratulate Lynn Nottage…
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The Antelope’s Strategy
After the genocide, ordinary Rwandans wonder: Can survivors and killers share hilltops again? There’s a shorthand in journalism for the difficult work of covering…
Read MoreOnce more to Rwanda, or "How a Rwandan genocide survivor made peace with the man who almost killed her"
“No Small Mercy” is my newest story on Rwanda, in the fabulous Canadian magazine The Walrus. Think of a publication whose mission is something…
Read MoreRemembering Rwanda
Life came to a standstill this week in Kigali, if it’s anything this year like it was last year. And I’m sure it was….
Read MoreIt's that time of year again
In Rwanda, in any case. Yesterday were the official ceremonies to mark the 15th anniversary of the genocide. I’m not in Kigali this year,…
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Ex-Combatants Return to a Changed Rwanda
A former ‘big man’ deserts his Congo-based militia after learning more about the country he left. Kigali, Rwanda – On a cool February afternoon,…
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Forging New Ways to Live Together After Genocide
The effort plays out in local courts as well as camps that teach the culture of a ‘new’ Rwanda. KIGALI, RWANDA — Two years…
Read MoreDear White People, Love Rwanda
At a conference last week about Rwanda, Jacqueline Murekatete, a genocide survivor who lives in New York and works with a nonprofit called Miracle…
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