Mae Azango Exposed a Secret Ritual
Todee, Liberia — It’s late afternoon in Todee, a village in rural Liberia, and the sun is starting to drop. Mae Azango settles into…
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$1 million for African media, $100,000 at a time
Enter your best ideas! Share This: For Immediate Release: May 10, 2012 Contact: Sonja Matanovic, Communications Director Telephone: 202.349.7624, smatanovic@icfj.org Call…
Read MoreIf you want to #coverthenight, also read this — Beyond #Kony2012: Advocacy, Activism and Africa
I’m thrilled to join the company of some stellar thinkers, doers and writers in “Beyond Kony2012.” I’ve offered a chapter called “Ethical or Exploitative:…
Read MoreIn Liberia, threats for covering female circumcision
The Terminator in Tanzania
I’m working at the moment with the stellar Jake Naughton of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting; we’re zig-zagging Africa for this project. Jake…
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Reporter Threatened Over Female Circumcision Story
I came to Liberia to work with a newspaper reporter named Mae Azango, in the capital city, Monrovia. We were going to do a…
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Someone asked me recently how I thought Africans were responding to the Kony2012 video, since I am in Liberia. I was at a loss…
Read MoreDid you hear we halved poverty while we were all distracted by Invisible Children? And nine other things that actually happened this week
Five questions for Invisible Children and #kony2012
I’m not going to interview Invisible Children, in part because I’m a little busy at the moment. But if I did, here’s the questions…
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