Yasin Kakande reflects on his teacher’s lessons, showing how understanding history is key to addressing today’s inequalities.
U.S Correspondent/News & Current Affairs
Yasin Kakande is an international journalist, author and TED Global Fellow whose work focuses on migration, geopolitics and press freedom. A former migrant from Uganda now based in the United States following asylum, his reporting draws on lived experience and a career spanning leading international outlets including The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Reuters, The National and The Boston Globe.
He is the author of several critically acclaimed non-fiction books, including Why We Are Coming and Slave States, which explore the global migration system from the perspective of African migrants and workers in the Middle East. Fluent in English, Arabic and Swahili, Yasin has also worked as a news producer and features writer in Dubai and Bahrain.
He contributes to The European on U.S. and global affairs, with a particular focus on migration, human rights and Africa’s evolving role in the international order. He is a frequent speaker at academic and policy events, including engagements with Human Rights Watch and the MIRR Alliance.
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