Fellows & Editors
Alex Daniels
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2011
- Affiliation:
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Country:
- Benin
- Year:
- 2011
Alex Daniels is a reporter in the Washington bureau of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, where he covers Congress and the federal government. When he started at the Little Rock-based paper in 2002, Daniels covered the Arkansas-based Wal-Mart company and the retail sector.
During 2004-5, he served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the office of a member of the House of Representatives. He graduated from George Washington University with a B.A. in Religion. Daniels has traveled the U.S., Canada and Japan on several tours as a drummer in a traveling music group. His current group is a ten-piece band that specializes in reggae and ska music.
Follow a live feed of his tweets, articles, and reports from Benin.
Stories
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Batesville to Benin: West African Preaching School Helped by Southern Churches
In the land of Vodun, a form of spirit veneration more popularly known in the West as Voodoo, religion is an essential facet of life. George Akpabli, a Church of Christ minister...
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Cotton Growers in Limbo
As Congress prepares to craft a new farm bill in the coming weeks, Arkansas cotton growers are bracing for tens of billions of dollars in cuts in the cash payments and taxpayerbacked...
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With No Money to Fight U.S., 4 Took Cotton Case to WTO
In 2002, Brazil took the United States to international trade court, using its muscle as a large trading partner to force U.S. concessions. The South American country, a large producer of cotton,...
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In Tiny Benin, Cotton Is King
Each day, Sambo Sero balances his hand-hoe over his shoulder and disappears onto the path that is barely visible from the dirt road. He navigates the twisty route for hundreds of yards...
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Beninese Scrape by on Average of $730 a Year
Photo: Alex Daniels Most motorists in Benin buy their fuel on the black market at roadside stands like this one in Bohicon, in the southern part of the country. The van, having...
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From Benin to Arkansas
In this small West African nation, at least 300,000 farmers cultivate plots of cotton, the country's single largest export. But it doesn't come without hardship. Seven years ago, cotton farmers from...
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In Benin, Genetically Modified Cotton Not Option for Now
Photo: Alex Daniels Farmer Sero Modougou inspects a cotton boll that has been ruined by a bollworm. Benin has placed a two year moratorium on using genetically-modified cotton that is resistant to...
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