The Rise of the Young and Urban in Africa

This past month, I have been working on an article for the Harvard International Review that explores the rise of Bobi Wine, a rapper turned political rebel, in Uganda (Check it out!). While his rise is mostly driven by the unique circumstances that he experiences in Uganda, it’s also driven by greater trends that’s happening

The Aftermath of the Second Russian-Chechen War

Chechnya, formally the Chechen Republic (a constituent territory of Russia), has clashed with the Russian government for centuries in bids for independence or greater autonomy, largely due to extreme social and cultural differences with the rest of Russia—historically, Russia and its ruling elite have been made up of ethnically-Russian Orthodox Christians, while Chechnya is populated