JOE PARKINSON is the Africa Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal and a Pulitzer Prize finalist currently based in Johannesburg. Originally from Devon, he has reported from more than forty countries, and has won numerous international awards.
DREW HINSHAW, a senior reporter for the Wall Street Journal, spent a decade covering West Africa. Originally from Atlanta, he has been nominated six times for the Pulitzer Prize and has also written for the New York Times Magazine, Time, Al Jazeera, the Atlantic and Rolling Stone.