Christina G.

Mail and Guardian -- Taking the Rough Road to the African Dream -- and Back

Estimates of Zimbabweans living in South Africa range from one million to five million; about 25% of all Zimbabwean adults had at some point worked or lived in South Africa. This story follows a Zimbabwean refugee living in Johannesburg to his home in Masvingo province to uncover socioeconomic conditions in post-hyperinflation Zimbabwe and what continues to drive Zimbabweans to South Africa.

• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - News

"I don't believe in magic potions, but..." Making sense of traditional healing culture in South Africa

If you spend enough time walking through any major African city, you'll eventually come across pamphlets promising “penis enlargements," among all sorts of other tools, including aides to win jobs, court cases, and lovers’ hearts. In this piece, the writer visits markets where ingredients for magic potions are sold, interviews traditional healers, also known as sangomas, and even consults one.

• Reporter / Journalist

The Con -- The Gamble of Land: Russians in Africa

This piece investigates the little known role of Russian investment bankers in the Kenyan real estate market, in particular in the hyper-inflation of real estate prices of prime agricultural land northeast of Nairobi where Tatu City, a high-profile, high-end, mixed-use residential and commercial development, is supposed to be built.

• Reporter / Journalist

Slate -- How Cell Phones Both Help and Hurt Women Abroad

This piece provides an overview of how cell phones have both empowered and undermined women around the word. On one hand, the 3 Ts--tin, tungsten, tantalum--that are necessary in cell phones' production, contribute to sexual violence in the DRC, while on the other hand helping women to learn how to read and claim financial independence.

• Reporter / Journalist

The Atlantic Cities -- Finding Relief in the World's Most Congested City

There are more people living in São Paulo than in New York City, Mexico City, or Lagos. Sao Paulo is also the most congested city in the world with the worst traffic jams on the planet. But there is one place in the city where, once a week, cars are strictly prohibited, a place reclaimed every Sunday by the city's pedestrians, cyclists and soccer kids: the elevated highway known as Minhocão.

• Reporter / Journalist

Mail and Guardian -- Kenya's e-waste soldier of ill fortune

• Reporter / Journalist