articles and essays
Selected articles and essays below.
Bloomberg Businessweek:
March 7, 2013: Africa’s Richest Man, Aliko Dangote, Is Just Getting Started
The New Yorker:
December 24, 2012: Out in Africa
NewYorker.com:
December 7, 2012: The Eight Most Fascinating Africans of 2012
August 6, 2012: Gay and Proud in Uganda
July 22, 2012: Thomas Kwoyelo’s Trial in Uganda
June 8, 2012: The Spear Affair
May 23, 2012: The South African President’s Spear
March 30, 2012: The Challenge at the World Bank
March 23, 2012: Qaddafi and Al-Qaeda: What’s Behind the Coup in Mali?
March 16, 2012: Freeing Sudan — and George Clooney
December 12, 2011: Ten Biggest Positive Africa Stories of 2011
December 05, 2011: Talking about AIDS in Africa
October 27, 2011: A Nobelist in New York: Occupy the United Nations
October 25, 2011: Obama and Uganda: Limbaugh’s Army
August 19, 2011: Crown Heights, Twenty Years After the Riots
July 28, 2011: Meet Mexico’s Child Assassins
July 22, 2011: Dry and Tense Days in Somalia
July 9, 2011: South Sudan’s Independence Days
May 5, 2011: Uganda Burning
February 28, 2011: Mexico City Days
November 1, 2010: Fidel and Taxes
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Fader:
January 28, 2011: Gen F: Inc.
n+1:
August 18, 2010: Rick Warren in Rwanda
Slate:
July 28, 2010: Flower Power
Granta Online:
May 18, 2009: Love in the Time of Swine Flu
The New York Times:
May 16, 2012: Losing More to Gain More: Amputees’ Once-Unthinkable Choice
January 13, 2012: Sunday Routine: Katori Hall
October 13, 2011: A Taste for Modern in Antiques
September 29, 2011: In Fast-Gentrifying Bed-Stuy, A Celebration of Early Black Settlers
August 8, 2011: After Bad Luck Leaves, Miss Africa New York Emerges
August 5, 2011: In a Pageant, a Borough’s New Face
July 11, 2010: Walking with the Herds in Kenya
April 14, 2009: In Gritty Mexico City, a Design Boom
January 25, 2009: Pulquerias in Mexico City
The Washington Post:
May 2, 2010: Homegrown fashionistas emerge in Mexico City’s La Roma
June 28, 2009: African Roots Still Run Deep for Blacks on Mexican Coast
More Intelligent Life:
June 24, 2010: The Q&A: Miguel Horn, Sculptor
February 8, 2010: Mexico’s Hidden Blacks
October 9, 2009: The Q&A: Miguel Calderón, Artist, Provocateur
September 21, 2009: Mexico City’s Fashion Mafia
Newsweek:
September 3, 2010: Women Crossing Borders
August 15, 2009: Women on the Verge
June 20, 2009: Run to Mexico?
March 14, 2009: A Labor of Love
VanityFair.com:
June 29, 2010: Homosexuals Are Still Under Siege in Uganda
December 17, 2009: How Western Evangelicals Influence Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill
May 1, 2009: Is Mexico Taking Swine Flu Precautions Too Far?
The National:
February 4, 2010: Land of the lush
The Atlantic Online:
May 12, 2009: Shaking the Swine Flu
This Recording:
July 5, 2011: And Then God Created the South
March 22, 2011: The Strangeness of Coming Back
Princeton Alumni Weekly:
April 28, 2010: Fitting in
TIME.com:
January 16, 2008: Where Have All the Tourists Gone?
December 26, 2007: Sugar and Medicine Make Uganda’s Forests Go Down
November 16, 2007: Africa’s Guilty TV Pleasure
November 10, 2007: Forgiving the Lord’s Resistance Army
September 28, 2007: Uganda Becomes an Anglican Haven
September 21, 2007: Is Global Warming Drowning Africa?
September 12, 2007: Starbucks Gives Uganda a Java Jolt
July 18, 2007: Looking for Justice in Uganda
The San Francisco Chronicle:
February 8, 2009: Drug addiction explodes in Mexico
October 19, 2008: Culture clash: Kenyan runners in Mexico
September 14, 2008: VW Beetle taxis on way out in Mexico City
Agence France-Presse:
July 6, 2008: Acid attacks maim innocent women
June 10, 2008: No man’s island
April 3, 2008: Extreme weather starving Uganda’s pastoralists
January 23, 2008: Uganda’s mato oput ritual: forgiveness for brutal 20-year war
January 14, 2008: Shaky start to school year for Kenya’s children
January 13, 2008: Surgery restores face, and soul, for mutilated war victim in Uganda
Christian Science Monitor:
June 14, 2007: Women lawyers force big rights gains in Uganda
