by Peter Chilson | Oct 30, 2018
Discussion: Thursday, November 8, 2018, 6:30-8:00 pm. Location at the home of Mimi Sanders, 318 SW Palatine Hill Rd (big yellow church) in Portland, 503-293-6195. Participating in our discussion will be Peter Chilson and Joanne B. Mulcahy, authors of Writing Abroad: A...
by Peter Chilson | Oct 30, 2018
If you’re not an engineer or farmer or agronomist, an onion harvester looks like a bunch of random bits of metal slapped together—knobby, angular, lots of sharp edges, vaguely resembling the Apollo moon lander. Or, on second glance, a rocket launcher. The machine...
by Peter Chilson | Oct 10, 2018
I’m looking for rubber dinosaurs. My nephews are obsessed with them. Seems like I’m in the right place, Walmart in Ontario, Oregon, a high desert town in onion, potato and sugar beet country on the Snake River, right up against Idaho. I pass a shelf piled with little...
by Peter Chilson | Aug 20, 2012
Tina Brown’s Must-Reads: Modern Warfare by NPR STAFF (The Link: http://www.npr.org/2012/07/18/156901301/tina-browns-must-reads-modern-warfare) Listen to the Story Morning Edition July 18, 2012 Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast andNewsweek, tells us what...
by Peter Chilson | Aug 19, 2012
Burkina Faso: A Small West African Country Struggles to Bring… PETER CHILSON, FOR THE PULITZER CENTER Col. Moussa Cisse, spokesman for Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Defense, hunched over his desk, cell phone to his ear, scribbling on a pad. It was after 6 p.m. on...
by Peter Chilson | Jun 19, 2012
Refugee Road: The Flight from Mali Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting Ilagala Ag Amin, a 59-year-old Tuareg from northern Mali’s Kidal region in West Africa, is a wiry, compact man who, when I met him at the Mentao Red Cross camp in Burkina Faso, was wearing a blue...
by Peter Chilson | May 28, 2012
Mali Chaos Continues | PRI’s The World On Public Radio International’s “The World” with Marco Werman, May 25, 2012: American journalist Peter Chilson has been in Mali, reporting on the crisis there. He crossed the border from Mali into Burkina...
by Peter Chilson | Jan 19, 2012
The curator at the Sikasso Regional Museum here in the south of Mali tosses up his hands and falls on the floor of his office, flat on his back to demonstrate how the city of the same name, once the capital of the African kingdom of Kenedougou, fell to the French in...
by Peter Chilson | Dec 31, 2011
I’ve just learned that Mohammed, the uninvited passenger sitting in the back seat of my rented car, doesn’t have travel papers. This is an issue because we’re waiting at the Ivory Coast border on our way south, out of Mali. Mohammed is the brother of Abdoulaye Diakité...
by Peter Chilson | Dec 16, 2011
Man of the People? Late the morning of Dec. 3, I’m in a Toyota Land Cruiser in a convoy, fourteen vehicles racing through thick red dust across back roads of the “new” Ivory Coast—the freshly reunited Ivory Coast, six months after the end of last spring’s brief civil...
