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Alexis Okeowo

@alexis_ok

'blessings and disasters: a story of alabama' out from @henryholt august 2025

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Hind Khoudary (@hind_gaza) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Feels so weird that a journalist from CNN has the protection to report on my country, when Palestinians themselves are being killed. At least 49 Palestinians journalists have been killed since Oct. 7

Nadja Drost (@nadjadrost) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Over the weekend, SIX journalists were killed by Israel, bringing the death toll of journalists covering the war to a staggering 48 (43 Palestinians, 3 Israelis, 1 Lebanese). Their killings are unconscionable, their loss staggering.

Leyla Hamed (@leylahamed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The latest posts from Motaz, Bisan, Ismail Jood and more Palestinian journalists are heartbreaking. They have lost any hope of surviving. They have done everything they could just to share what's happening with us while trying to survive a genocide. I have no words.

The latest posts from Motaz, Bisan, Ismail Jood and more Palestinian journalists are heartbreaking. They have lost any hope of surviving. 
They have done everything they could just to share what's happening with us while trying to survive a genocide. I have no words.
Sarah Kinosian (@skinosian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A single .50 sniper rifle caliber found in a raid on a cartel house in Jalisco led investigators to Racine, Wisconsin, where they uncovered a ring sending high-caliber guns to CJNG. Then they learned it was one cell in a trafficking network spanning the US reuters.com/investigates/s…

Alexis Okeowo (@alexis_ok) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Throughout the West Bank, I met Palestinians who swore that such killings had first appeared to them in dreams, in visions. It was impossible for them to watch the news from Gaza and not have a sense of apocalypse." newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

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"There’s a TikTok of a genocide basically in slow motion.” Wrote about the war in Sudan for Vogue's March issue: vogue.com/article/niemat… Kholood Khair William Carter

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@franceskalbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I lost count of how many renowned journalists interviewed me on the alleged mistreatment of/sexual abuse against Palestinian women by Israeli forces, and never published any article on this. One day I will give a full account in my memoir.

Larry Madowo (@larrymadowo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2,187 Kenyan women accused British soldiers of rape. The British investigated their own military & concluded that “there was no reliable evidence to support any single allegation.” They didn’t DNA test 69 mixed-race kids. Then Kenya lost the case files cnn.com/2024/06/17/afr…

Leah Flickinger (@leahflickinger) 's Twitter Profile Photo

South Sudanese refugee Dominic Lobalu wants to make Olympic history tomorrow in the 5000m final. Alexis Okeowo explores his harrowing odyssey & the unwavering determination that got him to running's highest level. @longreads #longreads Sunday R runnersworld.com/runners-storie…

The New Yorker (@newyorker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In Kenya, promising miracles has proved lucrative. Alexis Okeowo reports on a pastor who took his followers’ money and led them into the forest, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people. nyer.cm/0lS50I0

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One of the most shocking stories I've worked on: A pastor led hundreds of followers into a Kenyan forest. Not many came out alive. For The New Yorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Nina Garcia (@ninagarcia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tyla covers our October issue. Blending the Amapiano music of her homeland with R&B and Pop, the South African popstar won over the world with a truly original sound. She shared with @ellemagazine, “it’s something I always really wanted, for myself, and for Africa, and

<a href="/Tyllaaaaaaa/">Tyla</a> covers our October issue. Blending the Amapiano music of her homeland with R&amp;B and Pop, the South African popstar won over the world with a truly original sound. She shared with @ellemagazine, “it’s something I always really wanted, for myself, and for Africa, and
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The Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina, who died in 2019, ruthlessly took down the clichés of writing about Africa in a viral 2005 essay. His work is as relevant as ever, Alexis Okeowo writes. nyer.cm/W4LTfFV

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The world forgot the ethnic cleansing, killings, and rape during Ethiopia's recent civil war. Malin and I went to document the crisis in Tigray, and a full-on war in Amhara. For NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2024/12/05/mag…

Henry Holt & Company (@henryholt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Praise is rolling in faster than an Alabama storm. Take a look at what authors are saying about the powerful new book #BlessingsAndDisasters from PEN award winner Alexis Okeowo!

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Siddhartha Mukherjee .Alexis Okeowo spends time with Tina Johnson, who in 2018 accused the Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual assault (Moore denies the allegations), and reflects on the resentment that has grown toward the #MeToo movement in recent years. nyer.cm/4gajnzk

Publishers Weekly (@publisherswkly) 's Twitter Profile Photo

★ Alexis Okeowo offers a wide-ranging and nuanced account of her home state. Probing and sumptuously written, this makes for an entrancingly ground-level and empathetic view of Alabama’s past and present. Henry Holt & Company buff.ly/LYNNE2f