Nov 12, 2023Born a Sin in AfricaA personal story published in New Lines Magazine about my improbable friendship with a woman who was abducted as a little girl from my...
Oct 28, 2023History's Deadliest KingAs I work on my book about one village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I like to weave in a bit of politics and history about...
Oct 3, 2020Evariste WinsI wrote a blog post earlier this year about these tenacious Catholic nuns in my old Peace Corps village in the Congo, Kamponde, who were...
Jun 7, 2020Coronavirus in Congo and #BlackLivesMatterThis post started off as an update on the Coronavirus in Congo — and I will get to that — but it's hard to ignore the other pandemic in...