Track Changes: Kenya and the New York Times redux
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we critique online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide questions or thoughts provoked […]
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Taking Stock of Biafra’s Ghosts in Cameroon’s Current Events
Wrapping up our series on the conflict in Cameroon today, we repost Chimamanda Adichie Ngozie’s recent OpEd in the New York Times with an extended introduction by Dr. Cilas Kemedjio […]
Track Changes: Jeffrey Gettleman’s “Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ in Africa” #NYTWeShouldTalk
By: Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine
Now that Jeffrey Gettleman has published a memoir about his tenure as the New York Times’s East Africa correspondent that is widely viewed […]
“The New York Times shows how to fail miserably while writing about Africa”
By: Angela Okune
For the second post in this week’s series looking at problematic reporting of Africa, we repost part of a recent piece by Karen Attiah, The Washington Post’s Global […]
Review of Jeffrey Gettleman’s Love, Africa: A memoir of Romance, War and Survival (Harper, 2017)
By: Uduak Amimo*
I was asked by the CIHA Blog to write a review of Jeffrey Gettleman’s memoir, Love, Africa, after ranting on Twitter about foreign correspondents who spend years in […]