I wrote a feature article about Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine for the excellent magazine of African news and culture The Continent. Check it out to read a short summary of the mine’s dark and weird history, as well as it’s strange history as the inspiration for Marvel’s Kingdom of Wakanda.
Find a PDF of the most recent issue of The Continent here. Article is on page 20. You can subscribe to the Continent for free and read all of their back issues here.
I got to have a fun and wide-ranging conversation with friend and colleague Joey Alone of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t podcast. We talked about Congo, conservation, the sorry…
Here are a few new banners and signs from recent protest and picket activity in Portland, OR. My partner Erica Thomas designed and painted the “On Strike” and “Solidarity” ones,…
I gave a lecture on my research into the legacy of the Shinkolobwe uranium mine in DR Congo for the Hanford Challenge Project. Hanford is the name of the military…
I traveled to Tulsa in October of 2022 to collaborate on this mural with an artist that I’ve admired for a long time. Kathleen Neeley is an illustrator and printmaker…
