Fellows & Editors
Ryan Lenora Brown
- Trip:
- Fellows 2016
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Sierra Leone
- Year:
- 2016
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Ryan Lenora Brown is a freelance print reporter based in Johannesburg, covering southern Africa for The Christian Science Monitor and other publications. Her work focuses on migration, urbanization, and culture across the continent, with a particular passion for writing about African cities and the lives of the people who inhabit them. In addition to the Monitor, her reporting from sub-Saharan Africa has appeared in The New York Times magazine, ForeignPolicy.com, TheAtlantic.com, Politico,The Daily Beast and Al Jazeera America. She is a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation, a 2011/12 Fulbright fellow, and the author if A Native of Nowhere: The Life of Nat Nakasa, a biography of an apartheid-era South African protest writer.
Stories
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For One woman, Working on an Ebola Burial Team Cracked Her Life Open
At the height of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, the rumors came fast and furious: The government was injecting patients with Ebola to shake more aid money out of the West;...
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Ebola’s Shunned Heroes
Esther Kine’s nightmares don’t require much imagination. What she sees when she closes her eyes is what she used to see when they were open: twisted bodies, screaming...
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Sierra Leone Mental Health Experts Aim to Pluck Out Heart of Ebola Mystery
When Ebola struck Sierra Leone in 2014, its terror lay in its mystery. It was a gruesome disease that no one had seen before, and claimed lives without apparent cause or...
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Ebola’s Aftermath in Sierra Leone: ‘This Is How I Know Women Are So Strong’
When Meminatu Sesay began to feel sick one day in September 2014, no one told her sister Fatmata to hold her as she cried, or to wipe the sweat from her flushed face....
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Sierra Leone’s Politically Minded Pop Star Captures His Country’s Ear
When singer Emmerson Bockarie swaggered on stage on a recent evening here, the crowd in front of him seemed to twinkle – hundreds of tiny flames flickering on and off in the...
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