Selected writing

  • Community banking: Shared Interest

  • 'I realised, I can do this, I can have a baby solo'

    BBC
  • Panicked African workers prevented from leaving Lebanon

    BBC
  • Namibia turns the visa tables on Western nations

    BBC
  • Why ice costs more than bread in Mali

    BBC
  • Nigeria's kidnap crisis: Inside story of a ransom negotiator

    BBC
  • Kenya ETA: President Ruto's vision of visa-free entry proves tricky for some

    BBC
  • Kenya follows Malawi in sending farm workers to Israel amid Hamas war

    BBC
  • Tanzanian student in Israel: 'Shift change saved me, but my friends are Hamas hostages'

    BBC
  • Uganda paternity testing causes huge controversy

    BBC
  • The promised land

  • Digitizing Africa's community banks - Quartz Africa Member Brief

  • Malawi's John Chilembwe gets statue in London's Trafalgar Square

    BBC
  • Waking Africa's sleep giant - Quartz Africa Member Brief

  • The Horn of Africa’s historic drought is the product of cascading failure

  • Tanzania: Displaced petty traders struggle with new market rules

  • The Democratic Republic of Congo becomes the biggest country in East Africa’s trading bloc

  • Swahili's bid to become a language for all of Africa

    BBC
  • Kenya’s new tennis star made history at the Australian Open

  • Why is the East African Community absent from the Africa Cup of Nations?

  • The Maasai TikTokers wowing Bollywood fans

    BBC
  • Several African companies could make covid vaccines, if Big Pharma drops its resistance

  • As Africa’s artifacts start to be returned, what about its films?

  • Africa’s leaders call out discriminatory omicron travel bans

  • Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam hit by water shortages as rivers dry up

  • Was COP26 a success or failure for Africa?

  • Why Tanzanian Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah is hardly known back home

    BBC
  • Hopes Fade in Tanzania for Greater Press Freedom Under Hassan

  • What did African leaders call for at COP26’s opening ceremony?

  • Digital platforms are disrupting East Africa’s traditional gig industries

  • Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel literature prize

  • Hackers stole and leaked her private photos. Then she was charged for breaking anti-pornography laws

  • Is it too late to fight Covid skepticism and vaccine hesitancy in Tanzania?

  • Pressure grows on Germany to accept Afghans under threat from the Taliban

    TRT
  • Tanzania’s new mobile money tax is a blow to the booming sector

  • Covid-19’s third wave dashes hope of tourism revival in east Africa

  • Saving Tanzania’s girls from the cruel traditions of FGM

  • Farmers in East Africa use smartphones to detect crop diseases

    TRT
  • Is the tide turning on reparations in Africa?

  • Berliners enjoy outdoor dining as restrictions ease

  • Tanzania’s new leader is making up for lost time in the fight against Covid

  • Ghosts of colonial segration haunt Dar es Salaam and Nairobi

  • Tanzania's president tried to control the internet

  • Tanzania braces for uncertainty after the death of its president

  • Tanzania announces new COVID19 measures under mounting pressure

  • Covid-skeptical Tanzania is experiencing a spike in pneumonia

  • Safari Guides Are Forced to Hunt for New Jobs Due to COVID

  • I Just Returned From a City Packed With Tourists. Here’s What It Was Like