Michela Wrong is a British journalist and author of It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-blower. Wrong has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, the BBC, and the Financial Times. She writes regularly about Africa for Slate.com and is a frequent commentator on African affairs in the media. Her first book, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo, won the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Nonfiction. Her second book, I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation, is a portrait of the African nation of Eritrea. She lives in London.
