Fellows & Editors
Rowan Moore Gerety
- Trip:
- Religion Fellows 2013
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Nigeria
- Year:
- 2013
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Rowan Moore Gerety is a writer and radio reporter based in Los Angeles. He is a contributor to “Marketplace,” “Living on Earth,” Guernica, and the Christian Science Monitor, among others, and edits the African Makers collection on Medium. He studied anthropology at Columbia University, and was a 2011-2012 Fulbright Scholar to Mozambique. He has written about housing scams and recycling fraud in California, about the complications of economic development in Mozambique, and about topics ranging from protecting cemeteries to real estate speculation to human-crocodile conflict on the Zambezi River.
Stories
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Only the Synagogue Can Save You
On any given weekend, one of Africa's largest concentrations of cancer patients, people living with AIDS, sufferers of strokes, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, asthma, epilepsy, abscesses, ulcers, severe burns, infertility, sickle...
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In Nigeria, Miracles Compete With Modern Medicine
Marcus Chukwu was having a hard time coming to terms with the idea that he should refrain from evangelizing to a patient on his deathbed. “Religion is always effective, when the...
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Medicine Men
Al-Hajji Mojeed thinks of himself as a reformer. After he welcomed me to the offices of his Olaiya Naturalist Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria, he led me to a small, windowless room where...
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Evangelical Christianity Is Big in Nigeria — 87 Football Fields Big
Photo above: Under an open-air pavilion built to seat a million people, children sleep on mats spread out on the cobblestones while their parents enter their 6th consecutive hour of worship. All-night...
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Think L.A. Is Bad? Take a Drive Through Traffic-Clogged Lagos
Robert Siegel: For another kind of gridlock, we turn now to Nigeria. The city of Lagos is on the fast track to being the most populous in Africa, but the city is...
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