Sitting Down With Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected Liberia’s president in 2005, she inherited a country wrecked by civil war and began to transform it. Today,…
Read MoreWhen Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected Liberia’s president in 2005, she inherited a country wrecked by civil war and began to transform it. Today,…
Read MoreGlenna Gordon has a fantastic story about trying to take the photo of George Weah, massive soccer star and one-time presidential candidate, whose narrow…
Read MoreKudos to Adam Nossiter, the New York Times’ man in Dakar, for today’s piece on mixed feelings about the French across Francophone Africa. (He…
Read MoreA piece of investigative reporting that took Glenna Gordon and I the better part of our month together in Monrovia, and lots of her…
Read MoreSix years after a civil war that killed 250,000 and displaced hundreds of thousands more, justice is at the top of Liberia’s list of…
Read MoreDuring four months of testimony, Charles Taylor, the former leader of Liberia, denied committing war crimes. He said he was the victim of a…
Read MoreGlenna Gordon and I have a couple posts up on the Pulitzer Center blog focused on justice and rape in Liberia. The first gives…
Read MoreThis is a Liberian proverb, the meaning of which we’re still not certain of. We learned it on our week-long trip up country, vernacular…
Read MoreWell the rapids, anyway. I had a hell of a good time rafting them last year (and have since heard from people unknown to…
Read MoreThis is, unhappily, the sequel to my earlier taken-down on major media coverage of rape in conflict. Turns out I have a little bit…
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