My stories and images have appeared on various media outlets on the Web. In 2006, I started Investigative Africa, a news blog on African affairs. I also do freelance web design. 
I started Investigative Africa in 2005 as a way to develop and share investigative journalism skills and reporting methods with other reporters. Our focus is research on effective methods of reporting in environments where normal news-gathering methods are ineffective.
Hidden Empires project examines the relationship between state and individual control of economic assets and political power in Africa.
RHINO-ER: Inside the global fight to save a species on the brink.
Published Work - International Publications
Some of my work has been used by the Wall Street Journal, Channel 4 News, The Times (of London) among other publications.
Newspapers & Community Reporting
I report on government, the environment and other issues in Richmond and Oakland, California. I continue to support the reporting in Africa through my news blog, Investigative Africa.
Nat Bates - Richmond politician. On council since 1967.
'I said Ben, you can't be real, this country is not going to vote for no peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia', Bates said in a rich southern accent as he chuckled while reclining his massive frame into a chair at the Richmond Civic Center, as if to recant his prediction. "Ben said, 'Well, we think he can win'. [Referring to Jimmy Carter's presidential run in 1975 - Carter won.]
John Stanton - Journalist, Author, Political Scientist
Like flies on cowdung, wherever there is oil, you will find private military organizations.