The Financial Times has hired Monica Mark to be its South Africa bureau chief.
Mark has been the Christian Science Monitor’s Africa editor, based in Johannesburg. A British-Nigerian, she has reported from more than 20 countries in Africa, with a particular interest in offbeat longform stories.
She was previously Johannesburg bureau chief for The New York Times, and before that spent a decade covering West Africa, first from Lagos, Nigeria, for The Guardian, then in Dakar, Senegal, for BuzzFeed News.
She has written on some of the biggest stories on the continent, often from remote outposts, where she has sought to elevate the unsung heroes in crises such as the Ebola epidemic, and in the jihadist conflicts waged by Boko Haram and Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. Deeply reported longform narratives, a particular interest, have ranged from modern-day slavery in Libya to queer culture in Nigeria.
