(October 29th, 2008)
The Daily Beast
An exclusive report on the sexual abuse case that tarnished Oprah’s South African School—and an interview with the dorm matron at the center of the scandal.
In the moments before her trial resumes, Tiny Makopo, a former dormitory matron at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, is sending text messages and listening to […]
(February 27th, 2007)
Just inside Kenya’s border with Somalia, some 170,000 Somalis live in refugee camps, waiting for peace in their homeland. In the camps, people balance dependence on aid with grassroots economic development. Gretchen Wilson reports.
(February 19th, 2007)
Africa’s small farmers often fall victim to local traders who dictate prices below market rates. But in rural Kenya farmers now have technology in hand that cuts out the middleman. Gretchen Wilson reports.
(December 21st, 2006)
Female faculty are rare at African universities, but the Internet helps university women exchange ideas and moral support. It provides what some participants call a “virtual feminist university.”
(December 8th, 2006)
Somali refugees who have fled the violence in their country have setled in South Afrca. They’ve set up shops in townships, competing with local business. And that’s spurred new violence.
