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…
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Healing from Genocide with Storytelling
KIGALI, RWANDA — Taylor Krauss sticks out more than most white people here, on the dusty dirt road that runs in front of his…
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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…
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Sierra Leonans Look to Truth-Telling for Post-War Peace
BOMARU, SIERRA LEONE — Little but its history distinguishes Bomaru from other villages scattered across Sierra Leone’s countryside. A quiet place with mud houses…
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Sierra Leone’s “Family Talk” Heals Scars of war
KAILAHUN DISTRICT, SIERRA LEONE — John Caulker might know the rough, red-rock roads of rural Sierra Leone better than he knows the hallways of…
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In Africa, Justice for Bush Wives
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE — Fatmata Jalloh was just a kid selling pancakes on a rural road in Sierra Leone when a rebel soldier snatched…
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San Quentin’s Self-Rehab: Healing on the Inside
SAN QUENTIN, CALIF. — When he stands, Gerry Harris towers over everyone in the room. He’s bald, with a salt-and-pepper beard that climbs to…
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A Human Rights Statistician Finds Truth in Numbers
PALO ALTO, CALIF. — The tension started in the witness room. “You could feel the stress rolling off the walls in there,” Patrick Ball…
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Glamour Hero Stephanie Nyombayire Tries To Help Stop Genocide
First I saw my mom crying,” says Stephanie Nyombayire, recalling the day she learned the details of the genocide taking place in her family’s…
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