Posts Tagged ‘africa’
Things you should read this weekend
Tristan McConnell’s series of stories from “the new Mogadishu” for GlobalPost. I think the piece on underpaid city cops is my favorite. Spend some time with his slideshow, too. (And if you haven’t you should read McConnell’s piece on Somaliland for VQR. I told you why last week, but here’s a new reason: there are [...]
Regarding more than the pain of others
I have a new essay with the Boston Review, about suffering, compassion and foreign journalism (and other narratives) of Africa. I hope you’ll read it. But here’s a cribsheet: Being the object of compassion is not the same thing as being the subject of a story. A lot, but not all of this, is our [...]
This week in “Huh?”
From CNN International, in an article about a British aid worker with what appears to be remarkable if limited telepathic capability. I think. Or maybe it’s an article about Save the Children’s remarkable if limited omniscience? Unclear: The British aid worker is “well,” said Anna Ford of Save the Children in Nairobi, Kenya. “He is [...]
An African strongman, a rockstar journalist, and an EU worker with a dopey haircut all walk into a bar…
I wrote this for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and while posting it in its entirety here is going to bite into my SEO rating, I figure there aren’t a whole lot of people who can overtake me in a Google search for “jina moore.” And this, alas, is no variety show. I wrote [...]
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