My resignation from Guernica
In the March issue of Guernica, I published “From the Edges of a Broken World,” a personal essay by Joanna Chen. Many critics have…
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Turns out, FGM is for men
Recently, I went to Galkayo, Somalia, with the inimitable Idil Abshir, also a Nairobi-based journalist, to meet two people who are trying to end…
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If your husband beats you and you’re a refugee… good luck
Germany’s system is failing to protect female refugees from violence.
Read MoreSunday in a South African township
I came to Tshepisong to meet Olga. When she had only two children herself, and she was only 30 years old, Olga began her…
Read MoreThank you, Site Lock!
Like most modern consumers, I have a hell of a time getting almost anything done, almost anywhere, and every time I think I figured…
Read MoreIn northern Kenya’s desert, herders get a hand — from a NASA satellite
This story starts where Kenya’s roads end — literally. The smooth tarmac that winds through Kenya’s wheat and flower fields turns to dust in…
Read MoreOf Poland, poets and the feeling of the possible: A goodbye
I am not a poet, but I am an impassioned lover of Wislawa Szymborska. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, but…
Read MoreCalling African journalists: Apply to report reproductive health with the Pulitzer Center!
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is putting its fantastic team behind a great new project, supporting four African journalists to cover reproductive health…
Read MoreOn women, media and revolution (or, come say hi!)
I’ve been neglectful of the blog of late, pouring my energies into offline work — or just getting distracted by the physical world? Unsure…
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