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Alexis Okeowo is an American journalist who is a staff writer at ''
From 2006 to 2007, Okeowo was a Princeton in Africa Fellow working at the ''
''A Moonless, Starless Sky''
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The New Yorker
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''. They are the author of ''A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa''
Early life
Okeowo grew up inAlabama
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, the child of Nigeria
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n parents. They attended Princeton University
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, graduating in 2006.
Career
From 2006 to 2007, Okeowo was a Princeton in Africa Fellow working at the ''New Vision
The ''New Vision'' is a Ugandan English-language newspaper published daily in print form and online.
Overview
''New Vision'' is one of two main national English-language newspapers in Uganda, the other being the ''Daily Monitor''. It is publi ...
'' newspaper in Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...
. In 2012, they won an Alicia Patterson Foundation The Alicia Patterson Foundation (APF) program was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson
Alicia Patterson (October 15, 1906 – July 2, 1963) was an American journalist, the founder and editor of ''Newsday''. With Neysa McMein, she cre ...
Fellowship to write about gay rights in Africa. They became a staff writer at the '' New Yorker'' in 2015 and is working on a book about people standing up to extremism in Africa at the New America Foundation
New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a think tank in the United States founded in 1999. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, educa ...
. Their 2017 book ''A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa'' was reviewed favorably.
Their work has appeared in the anthologies ''Best American Travel Writing 2017'' and ''Best American Sports Writing 2017''.
''The Christian Science Monitor
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'' called Okeowo one of the "finest war and foreign correspondents" at ''The New Yorker'': "Alexis Okeowo, who was named a staff writer in late 2015, is continuing the tradition of the foreign correspondent who takes considerable personal risks driven by the conviction that all stories deserve to be told, particularly those that require a great deal of courage to uncover in the first place."
Awards and honors
*2014 Kurt Schork Memorial Award finalist *2015Livingston Award
The Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan are American journalism awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting. They are the largest, all-media, general reporting prizes in Ame ...
for international reporting, finalist.
*2017 '' Elle'' magazine's 27 "best books", for ''A Moonless, Starless Sky''
*2018 PEN/Open Book
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, winner for ''A Moonless, Starless Sky''
*2020 The Front Page Award The Front Page Award is an award given by the Newswomen's Club of New York The Newswomen's Club of New York is a nonprofit organization that focuses on women working in the media in the New York City metropolitan area. Founded in 1922 as the New Yor ...
for Journalist of the Year from the Newswomen's Club of New York
Bibliography
Books
*Essays and reporting
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External links
''A Moonless, Starless Sky''
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