A MoJo of video, audio and written reportages
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 27°C] Since my visit to Southern Sudan last spring—and with the intention of returning for next year’s election in April—I’ve been reading about working as a journalist in conflict situations and reading journalistic stories written from conflict zones. Some great books I’ve read lately are written by journalists covering areas of political [...]
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 20°C] In a previous post, I write about returning to Southern Sudan, how my first visit only increased my appetite for more. How little I knew about the place then and how much more I want to know about it now. The upcoming all-Sudan general elections that everyone-following-Sudan is talking about, would [...]
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 13°C] It has been just over three weeks since I returned to Montréal from ten weeks in East Africa, most of which were spent in Southern Sudan. I’ve been back long enough to discard the lag that fogs the spirit after flying between continents. Sufficient time has passed to deplete the novelty [...]
[MONTRÉAL] A half-empty pint of double-fermented rye beer sits on the shaky table beside Ruszard Kapuscinki’s book, The Shadow of the Sun, which is described in the New York Times as “a marvel of humane, sorrowful and lucid observation” of Africa. It is a great read by a Polish journalist who was intimately familiar with [...]
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Condition Critical 10,000 Words