James North has reported from Africa, Latin America, and Asia for four decades. He lives in New York City.
If the Congolese people can force the multinational mining giants to pay their government fairly, this country has a chance.
How the demand for chocolate—yes, chocolate!—helped fuel the country’s civil war.
The country needs profound, revolutionary change. Daily life is a struggle that is incomprehensible to most outsiders.
Amid widespread allegations of electoral fraud and a chaotic international relief effort, Haitians themselves are surviving with dignity and heroism.
A revealing question: Why has V.S. Naipaul come to be much better known in the West than the great African writer Chinua Achebe?
Some years ago, I had the good fortune to befriend an extended family who lived in a poor shantytown in the southern reaches of Santiago, Chile.
All during the year 1984, those of us with firsthand experience in Africa knew that drought and famine were cutting across vast swaths of the continent.