Fellows & Editors
Ryan Lenora Brown
- Trip:
- Senegal 2017
- Affiliation:
- Christian Science Monitor
- Country:
- Senegal
- Year:
- 2017
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Ryan Lenora Brown is The Christian Science Monitor's Johannesburg Bureau Chief, covering sub-Saharan Africa for the Monitor's website and weekly news magazine. Prior to joining the Monitor staff full-time, she freelanced extensively across the region for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Runners World, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera, among others.
Brown was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Sierra Leone in 2016.
Stories
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For Senegal island’s residents, famed slavery heritage site incurs a cost
Each day, Deguène Gaye watches the ferry chug in from the mainland, disgorging a herd of sunburned tourists onto Gorée Island’s white-sand beaches. From there, she...
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In Senegal, family planning finds a key ally: imams
The mosque loudspeaker crackles to life, just as it does five times a day, every day, in this quiet village just outside the Senegalese capital, Dakar. But instead of the typical melodious...
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After soccer star risked all for Europe, Gambia still wrestles with why she left
For much of Fatim Jawara’s life, almost her entire world fit here – into a single rambling stretch of dirt road in a rundown beach town at the western tip...
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In push to end FGM, local women offer influential message
It was the biggest party Aminata Mané had ever been to, a riot of colorful dresses and exuberant dancing. There were enough fluffy piles of rice and roasted sheep’s...
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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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