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






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

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/…


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


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!

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

★ 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