Tag: famine

“In the great halls of Costco, two of our greatest fears are assuaged — that of not having enough, and that of not being enough.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek treks through “the hunger zone” in northern Kenya with a nomadic goat herder to get a better understanding of a region persistently devastated by famine. While describing his experience, Salopek also takes us through a history of hunger and foreign food aid: Mister Inas then showed us a few wild […]