Before returning to academia, I made a career as a journalist. I reported about foreign affairs and defense. I did reporting in several countries including Afghanistan, Angola, and Zambia. In Silicon Valley in California, I reported about technology.
I learned on my reporting trips that people everywhere in the world are inherently the same, with similar basic needs, dreams, and fears.
On this page, you can see some pictures from my reporting trips. I took the picture above at a sunset in Lubango, Angola.
The girls were singing while preparing flour in Shangalala, Angola.
I was listening to a soldier’s instructions in Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan while preparing to leave the military base.
We moved around in military tanks in Afghanistan.
There was a cell phone store at the Kakuma refugee camp in Northern Kenya, close to the border of South Sudan. More than 50,000 refugees and asylum seekers were living there. These days the camp has even grown from that.
These members of the Turkana tribe lived nearby the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, close to the border of South Sudan. They would come and sell produce there.
The refugees who had received an asylum were transported to refugee centers in Kenya. In a refugee center in Nairobi, families were waiting to be relocated to their new home countries.
In Angola, land mines were laid in vast areas by local and foreign troops during the wars. Long after the wars were over, land mines were found. Too many people lost their arms or legs because of walking to a land mine. Wars don’t just create a momentary destruction, but also decades afterwards.
These girls were preparing dinner in Mukulu, Angola.
This child was helping the family in household chores in Mukulu, Angola.
Diamonds were mined in southern Namibia and then sorted out in a facility in Windhoek, Namibia.