thankful for brave journalists like alexis okeowo. inspiring and informative piece by FP Interrupted
This week, we want to make sure rock-star journalistAlexis Okeowois on your radar.
Alexis is based in Lagos, Nigeria. She contributesto The New Yorker, Bloomberg Businessweek, and TIME. Previously based in New York, Mexico, and Uganda, Alexis reported on a Chinese mining scandal in Zambia in 2013 with the support of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. She was a 2012 fellow of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, reporting on gay rights in Africa. She was also a 2012 fellow of the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, writing about sectarian violence in central and northern Nigeria.
Also, fun-fact: She once took a really slow motorboat for something like four or five hours to and from a tiny…
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