Getting right speech right
I’m pretty sure I waxed rhapsodic in my graduate school essay about the importance of telling people’s stories. Stories were the one thing in…
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Here’s how I guess this will work…
So, my friends, my intention was to begin my blog with a couple of posts a day about the Sierra Leone experience. Then, segue…
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Scratch “Plays well with others,” add “Scares little children”
20-21 March 2008, en route It took two days to drive from Freetown, on the western coast of Africa, to Kailahun, in the extreme…
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19 March 2008, Freetown He is my taxi driver. A friend of a friend gave me two driver’s numbers, and I called this one…
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The naming of things
From notes made between March 19 and 21, 2008 It’s almost never not funny here in Freetown. There are more signs for social causes…
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A friend forwarded me this story from the BBC, Ivory Coast’s ‘big-bottom’ craze. There’s a song in praise of bums, which spawned a dance…
Read MoreJust one more thing from Rwanda…
17 March, Nairobi, in transit to Freetown I am surprised how emotional I felt at the Kigali airport. I mean, I’m not leaving-leaving; just…
Read MorePulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting partnerships
I’ve had the good fortune of working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and its fantastic staff on several projects: Justice Renewed: Libera…
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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Beyond Peace Deals Central African Republic, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau May – August 2010 For decades, the international community has been dogged by…
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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…
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