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Karl Maier
Karl Maier was born in Kentucky in 1957 and studied at Columbia University, New York. In the early 1980s he worked as a journalist in Central America and in 1986 moved to Africa; h...view moreKarl Maier was born in Kentucky in 1957 and studied at Columbia University, New York. In the early 1980s he worked as a journalist in Central America and in 1986 moved to Africa; he has reported from Angola, Somalia, Mozambique, Liberia, South Africa and Zimbabwe for The Independent, Washington Post, The Economist and Africa Confidential. Author of the highly acclaimed This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis (Penguin) and Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa (Wiley), he currently works as a journalist in South Africa.view less