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FOREIGN POLICY
“In one of Africa’s most densely populated countries, brothers are killing brothers over the right to farm mere acres of earth. There’s just not enough land to go around in Burundi — and it could push the country into civil war.”
— The Blood Cries Out (2015)
THE ATLANTIC
“‘The Philippines is no longer the sick man of East Asia, but the rising tiger,’ announced World Bank Country Director Motoo Konishi during the Philippines Development Forum in Davao City in February. But that economic growth only looks great on paper. The slums of Manila and Cebu are as bleak as they always were, and on the ground, average Filipinos aren't feeling so optimistic.”
— The Grim Reality Behind The Philippines’ Economic Growth (2013)
NEW YORK TIMES
“On New Year’s Eve, as people around the world celebrated with a kiss or a glass of champagne, some partygoers in Nairobi celebrated a different way: with 12 grapes, one for each month of the year, as the clock ticked down to midnight. This Mexican tradition, which dates back to the Spanish colonial period and is said to bring good luck, arrived in Nairobi on the crest of a cultural wave that is taking over Kenya’s trendiest corners. Mexican culture is everywhere: on restaurant menus, in dance clubs, on television.”
— Tacos. Tequila. Telenovelas. Nairobi Embraces Its Mexican Soul. (2019)