PULLMAN, Wash. – After navigating a coup and rebellion in West Africa with funding from a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting grant, a Washington State University English professor has shared his first-person account in an e-book for a Washington Post publication.
“We Never Knew Exactly Where: Dispatches from the Lost Country of Mali” was published just as the war broke out in January, making Chilson an overnight media expert in demand from agencies such as the U.S. State Department, Al Jazeera and the BBC.
In the video, Chilson describes his experiences in the war-torn borderlands of Mali. As a writer and journalist, he documents Mali’s recent war with al-Qaida groups – and how the Malian people reacted to the threat of Sharia law being suddenly forced upon them.
Read an earlier article on WSU News about Chilson’s work here.