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Tristan McConnell

Freelancer

Tristan McConnell is a writer and foreign correspondent living in Nairobi, Kenya.

His long-form stories have appeared in GQ, Harper’s, the New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, London Review of Books, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. His news features have been published by the Times of London, the Economist, Time, GlobalPost, AFP, New York Magazine and many more.

Tristan’s reporting has won awards from the Overseas Press Club of America, the Society for Features Journalism, and the Prix Bayeux for War Correspondents.

Latest articles by Tristan McConnell

Supertrees: Meet Congo’s caretaker of the forest
Climate

Afrormosia is a gorgeous, resilient giant of the Congo Basin that’s edging closer to extinction.

By Tristan McConnell
These 3 supertrees can protect us from climate collapse
Climate

But can we protect them?

By Umair Irfan, Eliza Barclay and 1 more

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