Yasin Kakande is a 2017-2018 TED Fellow and author of an upcoming book exploring the long history and current developments of global migration patterns as they apply to Africans. As a migrant from Uganda, first in the Middle East and now in the U.S., Kakande strives to fill in a migrant’s voice in the ongoing global debate over refugees and migrants. His previous two books The Ambitious Struggle (2013) and Slave States (2015) chronicled the abuses and exploitation of migrants, who work in the Middle East. He works as a freelance international journalist, including assignments for Thomson Reuters and Al Jazeera, and is a frequent contributor to many digital publications and websites.
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About Me
A native of Uganda, Yasin Kakande holds a university degree in mass communications and is currently pursuing an MFA (Creative Writing) from Emerson College in Boston. He worked in the United Arab Emirates reporting for local newspapers for fifteen years. Named a Global TED Fellow, Kakande is the author of many international news articles and two previous books, The Ambitious Struggle: An African Journalist’s Journey to Hope and Identity in a Land of Migrants and Slave States: The practice of Kafala in the Gulf Arab Countries. He has lectured widely on the topic of African migration and the politics of nationality at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Lake Forest College in Illinois, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. His op ed pieces appear regularly in major media outlets such as The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and The London Economic.
Recent Posts
- Can the World Cup help save Qatar migrant workers from being starved for relationships of love, romance and intimacy?
- The deaths that haunt me a decade on
- Political Assassinations and Torture; A Legacy of Museveni’s 35 Year’s Rule
- Africa’s Most Reliable Imperialist Agent, The West, Will Not Let Go
- When are we going to have an honest conversation on African migration?
Yasin Kakande 
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