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Alexis Okeowo

Alexis Okeowo
Alexis Okeowo is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a fellow at New America. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Financial Times, Time, and Fortune, among many other publications. The daughter of immigrant parents, Okeowo grew up in Alabama and attended Princeton University. She was based in Lagos, Nigeria, from 2012 to 2015, and now lives in Brooklyn.


What Does Resistance Look Like in the Face of Extremism?

Alexis Okeowo on the Complex Ethics of Fighting Extremism in Africa
October 12, 2017  By Alexis Okeowo
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