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some of my reporting 

PHOTOS: As South Africa’s rooibos tea trade heats up, debate brews 

The Globe and Mail. Jan. 8, 2022

Vigilante groups tackle looters in South Africa

The Times. July 15, 2021

Cheetah 'message boards' found in Namibia could save the species

The Times. Dec 21, 2020

Rwandan street children 'beaten and abused' in detention camp

The Times. Jan. 27 2020

Tuning into Africa: Will new stories mean new subscribers?

The Economist. March 4, 2020

How Far Can Populism Go in South Africa? 

Foreign Affairs. May 7, 2019

The rush to avert a second disaster after floods in Mozambique

The Economist. March 30, 2019

Ramaphosa’s Short Honeymoon

Why South African women are opting for clandestine abortions

The Economist. Feb. 1, 2018

South Africa is getting land reform wrong

The Economist. Jan. 25, 2018

In South Africa, household debt is hobbling the black middle class

The Economist. Jan. 18, 2018

Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as head of the ANC means he’ll probably be South Africa’s next president

Los Angeles Times. Dec. 19, 2017

Global companies snared in South Africa’s corruption scandal

The Associated Press. Dec. 13, 2017

Pictures of Robert Mugabe are being torn down all over Zimbabwe

The Economist. Nov. 23, 2017

Zimbabwe erupts in jubilation as Mugabe resigns

Robert Mugabe, who bragged he would rule Zimbabwe until death, has resigned

The Economist. Nov. 21, 2017

Robert Mugabe resigns as Zimbabwe's president after 37 years

Zimbabwe’s deepening crisis

The Economist. Nov. 2, 2017

The loneliest plant on earth

The Economist. Oct 19, 2017

South Africa’s ruling party is at war with itself

The Economist. Sept. 30, 2017

The offspring of Africa's strongmen are living it up

The Economist. Aug. 10, 2017

Gauteng’s Johannesburg: a city to charm developers

Financial Times. May 13, 2017

Driving in Johannesburg: Bad robots

The Economist. Sept. 8, 2016

Religion in Zimbabwe: Tithing troubles

The Economist. Aug. 27, 2016

Goodbye, Party of Nelson Mandela. Hello, Rainbow Nation.

Foreign Policy. Aug. 10, 2016

South Africa's strange 'Native American' fetish

GlobalPost/USA Today. Jan. 4, 2016

From Gucci Grace to President Mugabe?

Foreign Policy. Dec. 21, 2015

Jacob Zuma: How South Africa turned on its President

The Independent. Dec. 17, 2015

Rap is resistance in slave-owning Mauritania

GlobalPost. Oct. 30, 2015

Campaigning against slavery can get you locked up in Mauritania

GlobalPost. Oct. 22, 2015

'Slaves by the will of God': Why Mauritania has the highest percentage of slaves in the world

GlobalPost. Oct. 19, 2015

In the Wake of Boko Haram's Assault, A Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds

NBC News/GlobalPost. April 14, 2015

Welcome to Scientology leader L. Ron Hubbard's African dream home

Boko Haram 'burned our houses, they burned our food' (VIDEO)

GlobalPost. April 14, 2015

Power rangers: Botswana's all-electric safari

CNN Travel. Dec. 2, 2014

Botswana's politics: Losing its sparkle

The Economist. Oct. 30, 2014

Justice in South Africa: Equal and colour-blind?

The Economist. Oct. 25, 2014

These are the real victims of Boko Haram

GlobalPost. May 1, 2015

Mozambique's got some of the best bad taxidermy you'll ever see

GlobalPost. Oct. 18, 2014 

And the Oscar goes to jail

GlobalPost. Oct. 21, 2014 

Madagascar's Bamboo Lemurs Fight For Survival

NPR/GlobalPost. Nov. 5, 2013

Zimbabwe’s coming election: The spirit of wrath is upon us

The Economist. June 29, 2013

The African National Congress: A sad and sorry decline

The Economist. June 29, 2013

Britain evicted these people so the US could set up a military base

GlobalPost. June 21, 2013

Beijing retail: Too competitive to win?

The Games: Foreigners not welcome

Maclean's Magazine. May 12, 2008

Young and West-less: They may be ill-fed but North Korean youth love their dear leader

Well dressed for the Olympics in Beijing

Bicycling in polluted Beijing

CBC Radio Dispatches. March 23, 2006

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