Gilbertmervilus·May 30Paul Corvington: De l’Académie Militaire d’Haïti aux carnets d’un lecteur de WashingtonVoilà près de quinze ans que je jette sur le papier des notes éparses. Des bribes de souvenirs et de faits sur celui qui fut le directeur…
Geneva Overholser·Apr 9, 2025AFRICA DAYS 14: West Africa BeckonsNote: Africa Days is a series of posts based on journals and letters from my years living in Kinshasa and traveling across Africa…
Leslye Moore·Mar 3, 2022The Lightning ThrowersIt was 1990 during the rainy season in the former equatorial Zaire (now D.R. Congo) that sits squarely on the equator. It was easy to tell…
Leslye Moore·Feb 25, 2022That Time When I Was A Dowry Offering…In January 1990, I was twenty-two years old, a Peace Corps agriculture extension volunteer. I lived in a small hut made of mud and edingwe…A response icon2
InCurated NewslettersbyYvette Stevens·Jul 11, 2021Reaching Innocent Victims of a Senseless WarIt was in 1988. We had been driving for hours along the bumpy laterite road that led from Kinshasa to a village near Kahembe, a border town…A response icon2