Liberia's Irrepressible Push to Dismantle Draconian Libel Laws

Rodney Sieh knows a thing or two about lawsuits. The publisher and editor-in-chief of Liberian news magazine FrontPage Africa (FPA) was jailed in 2013 because he couldn’t pay a $ 1.5 million fine for a libel lawsuit won by former agriculture minister Chris Toe. But when the magazine was hit with a new $ 1.8 […]

The Irrepressible Id of ‘Chewing Gum’s Tracey Gordon

Despite the unglamorous setting, the world of Chewing Gum‘s Tracey Gordon is full of eye-popping color. She wears bright yellow sweaters over flower-patterned button-down shirts, her hair in two long braids, like an overgrown schoolgirl. (“I’m a grown-ass woman,” she insists. “I just regularly make childlike mistakes.”) It’s London, but the skies are blue; Tracey works behind the counter […]