Timeliness: Once considered Africa's success story, Mozambique is suddenly making international headlines over its unsustainable debt levels. The author is the only international journalist poised to comment on human impact of the global debt crisis as it plays out in this pivotal country. Platform: Gerety has a growing social media presence, and is a regular contributor to major public media outlets including Marketplace, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered. Credentials: Gerety is a Columbia-trained anthropologist who specializes in southern Africa. He received a Fulbright to study and report on Mozambique over a two-year period. He also edited the African Makers series on Medium.com, a collection of articles about technology and innovation around the continent.

Author Biography

Rowan Moore Gerety is a journalist based in Miami. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, the Miami Herald, Slate, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and he has produced radio stories for NPR and PRI. He studied anthropology at Columbia University and was a Fulbright fellow in Mozambique. This is his first book.