Reporter, writer, photojournalist. Going through life with a desire to transform experience through recording it. This lion occupies a flat in Kampala but often trawls the countryside for stories. After more than a year and a half in Uganda, we are still sans safari and therefore sans live lions. A hollowed out plastic toy with a cheap scarlett and black paint job suffices, providing curiosity, cynicism and commentary.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who spurred a decade of violence in neighboring Sierra Leone, is on trial for war crimes. Why don't Sierra Leoneans seem to care?
Cora Taylor holds up a brown Barbie doll outfitted in one of her creations: a long dress and headdress in brightly printed African fabric.
“I wanted something else, something that looked like me,†said Taylor, whose full name is Cora Ann...
Inside Ellen’s Birthday Cake
From the Analyst. HT Megan of the Niapele Project.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, like any natal-day celebrant, clearly must be in exhilaratingly festive mood as she nets exactly 71today–an apparently zigzag and...
Last month I went back to Uganda, almost a year after I’d moved away. I took photos for the International Trade Center and Good African Coffee. And every morning in Liberia when I pour myself a cup of good African coffee, I’m glad I went.
Seydou Keïta, via African Media
The best flag ever, from the Benin Empire, via Ryan C. Briggs
Finbarr O’Rielly’s photos are on display in France.
I am African, via African Digital Arts.
Three young women in Nimba County, Liberia, on their way to participate in the Sande School – a bush initiation ceremony that usually ends with female genital mutilation.
I’ve got a slideshow of images from last week’s upcountry Liberia trip on the...
