Fellows & Editors
Christopher Clark
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Year:
- 2017
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Christopher Clark is a British freelance journalist based in Cape Town, working across southern and central Africa for publications including Al Jazeera, CNN, Forbes Africa, Reuters, Roads & Kingdoms and Vice magazine. His feature writing covers themes ranging from social justice and social entrepreneurship to crime, conservation and contemporary counterculture. He has twice been featured as one of South Africa's best writers and thought leaders in the annual The Big Issue Collector's Edition. Christopher obtained a BA with distinction in Media and Writing and English Literature from the University of Cape Town and occasionally moonlights as a journalism lecturer.
Stories
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Back Into the Wild
As the dugout canoe cuts its path through the early morning mist that covers the surface of the Lopori River, Victor Likofata recounts the day in August, 2011 when he was mauled and...
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Congo’s quiet collapse
Far from the international spotlight, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) crisis is silently suffocating its citizens. On a humid morning in Mbandaka — the crumbling provincial capital...
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Gay, Out And On The Airwaves In Kinshasa
Sitting at his desk in a stuffy office with a rainbow flag hanging behind him, 31-year-old Patou Izai says it takes a lot of courage to come out as gay in Kinshasa,...
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Congo’s young pygmy reporters take to the airwaves to fight exclusion
MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sixteen-year-old Elisée Nyanokonzo used to be afraid to walk alone around the streets of Mbandaka, the crumbling provincial of É...;
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