Articles by: Tim Harper

By Stuart White and Agnes Taile On April 27, 2010, Bibi Ngota died in Kondengui prison in the tiny West African nation of Cameroon.  According to prison documents made public by his family, Ngota perished because of “abandonment, improper care,” by prison authorities, and “failure to render assistance.” Ngota wasn’t […]

By Simone Sebastian Thomas Boker stalked a 30-year-old woman for blocks as she walked a familiar path to her apartment in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood. He shadowed her as she headed to the Van Dyke housing projects. He stepped into the elevator she got on. When the doors opened on her […]

~ By Janet Lawrence ~ Patrick Lynch lies on an examining table, squirming in pain. Kunal Kalra, a doctor at the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, has just plunged a 4-inch-long needle into Lynch’s swollen left quadriceps. Moments before, Kalra had examined the partly-healed incisions on Lynch’s knee. The marks […]

Notes on Housing, Inequality and Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa ~By Hannah Rappleye~ One night a few weeks before the 2010 World Cup, 33-year-old Terrance Mbuleo lay bleeding under a street lamp, on a narrow strip of dirt separating thousands of shacks from a handful of brick houses. That afternoon, […]