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...
Hassan is a Fula man from Guinea who has lived most of his life in Liberia. He drives me almost everywhere in a yellow taxi cab. His old cab had these ducks on the dashboard. The windshield was cracked, and only some of the windows went down as it...
Along with partner in all things Pulitzer Center, Jina Moore, I’ve got a story up on the Foreign Policy website about the “copyrighted” law in Liberia. It’s just as crazy as it sounds: led a team of lawyers, a group called the Liberia Law Experts, to...
Last week, Duckrabbit posted on A Developing story:
Journalists in developing countries are often very poorly paid. Many of them have second jobs. Photojournalists especially struggle because of the cost of equipment. Up until recently many NGO’s...
“I promise you that today, TODAY, you are going to see George Weah!” the public relations officer said to me while driving around the outskirts of Monrovia in a beat up yellow taxi.
During the thirty or forty minute drive, he probably said this...
