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Nanjala Nyabola toggle caption Nanjala Nyabola Nanjala Nyabola is an academic, traveler, and collector of guidebooks, some of which are pictured here. Nanjala Nyabola Remember Lonely Planet? Rough Guides? The glossy photos? The breezy descriptions of faraway places? Long before the pandemic lockdown, those classic guidebooks were go-to reading for many people going on a big trip. Nanjala Nyabola is one of them. She's a writer and a consummate traveler from Kenya who collects these guides, but discovered early on that the information that lay between the...

Embed iframe src "https://www.npr.org/player/embed/928692038/928885716" width "100%" height "290" frameborder "0" scrolling "no" title "NPR embedded audio player" GREGORY WARNER, HOST: You're listening to ROUGH TRANSLATION from NPR. I'm Gregory Warner. And today, a story from Uganda about a woman who has elevated insults to an art form that even the president of her country, Yoweri Museveni, has not been able to ignore. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) STELLA NYANZI: Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday - how bitterly sad a day. WARNER: Now, before we go further, a language al...

White Lies and the upcoming On Our Watch, our partnership with Member station KQED.Aligning these teams allows us to be more efficient with how we allocate resources across the unit and to thoughtfully extend the reach of our work by, among other things, publishing it in more than one feed. It will help us better coordinate across platforms and the network, particularly when it comes to enterprise longform projects and investigations. And it offers the opportunity for reporters, editors and producers to work on projects and launches across properties. Many of you have heard about these effor...

International Stories You Loved In 2020 at 8:44 am NPR This past year was like no other. The world suffered deeply from the novel coronavirus and many endured difficult sacrifices. But other news never stopped in 2020. Tensions escalated with Iran after the U.S. killed a top Iranian general. Britain made an arduous exit from the European Union. China enacted tough new authority over Hong Kong. The racial justice movement in the United States set off solidarity protests in many other countries. And that was just in the first half of the year. All the while, NPR's far-flung j...

Embed iframe src "https://www.npr.org/player/embed/947221309/947242783" width "100%" height "290" frameborder "0" scrolling "no" title "NPR embedded audio player" GREGORY WARNER, HOST: This is ROUGH TRANSLATON from NPR. I'm Gregory Warner. And before we get to today's episode, I just want to celebrate a milestone for everybody here. We brought you more episodes of ROUGH TRANSLATION in 2020 than any year since we launched. We did that despite a pandemic but also I have to admit because of the pandemic. The thesis of ROUGH TRANSLATION, after all, is that the obstacles we face around the wor...