I have 23 fans: Become a Fan. You'll get emails whenever I post articles on OpEdNews
Georgianne Nienaber is an investigative environmental and political writer. She lives in rural northern Minnesota, New Orleans and South Florida. Her articles have appeared in The Society of Professional Journalists' Online Quill Magazine, The Ugandan Independent, Rwanda's New Times, India's TerraGreen, COA News, ZNET, OpEdNews, Glide Magazine, The Journal of the International Primate Protection League, Africa Front, The United Nations Publication, A Civil Society Observer, Bitch Magazine, and Zimbabwe's The Daily Mirror. Her fiction expos- of insurance fraud in the horse industry, Horse Sense, was re-released in early 2006. Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey was also released in 2006. Nienaber spent much of 2007 doing research in South Africa, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was in DRC as a MONUC-accredited journalist, and has been living Southern Louisiana investigating hurricane reconstruction and getting to know the people there since late 2007. Nienaber is currently developing a documentary on the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, and continuing "to explore the magic of the Deep South." She is a member of the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 Can Social Networking Bridge Differences Through Faith? (3 comments)
Three years ago or more, I am not certain, I was on an Airbus returning from Congo. It was a painfully long flight, following a painful time in the Kivus. During the course of the flight, I made eye contact several times with an imposing African man who was sitting two rows up and to the right of me, both of us in aisle seats, so we walked past each other on several occasions.
Monday, September 1, 2008 How Much Focus on Political Shenanigans is Enough? Where is Our Common Humanity (3 comments)
Africa thrives on the bonds of community, village and family, and while I am here people they take me into their homes and hearts and are genuinely concerned about a strange entity called a hurricane that threatens their friend's extended family. The African worldview (white and black alike) includes the basic concept that we are all spiritually connected.
Sunday, August 31, 2008 URGENT GUSTAV HOTLINE/Disaster Accountability Project (4 comments)
Please forward this to every listserv any of you are on. I am in Africa and unable to write it up properly because of shaky internet.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 WeAreRadio: Music for the Rest of Us (6 comments)
There is a guy named Stephen Webb in South Carolina who turned dreams into reality and created an Indie radio station that has taken off like a rocket world-wide. More about him in the future, but I don't want this interview to be missed.
Thursday, August 14, 2008 Nienaber finally comes out... (5 comments)
and says what she really thinks about OEN ratings system. Got your attention.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 New Orleans Artists for Truth
This is for Mac and everyone who is telling the truth about New Orleans.
Friday, January 25, 2008 The Evangeline Project and Diaspora (2 comments)
Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient,
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 The Hand of a Dead Congolese Child Waving (4 comments)
How does one assimilate a number as hideous as 45,000 souls departing this world per month in the Democratic Republic of Congo? To make matters worse, children are only 19 percent of the DRC's population, but they make up half of the non-combat related deaths. DRC is one of eleven countries where a full 20 percent of children die before the age of five.
Sunday, June 24, 2007 Late Night Mercy
"We all could use a little mercy, NOW."
Monday, March 5, 2007 Valentine's DayOf Arms and Men
A United Nations diplomat told me several weeks ago that she thought the Virungas had about two years before the ecosystem collapses. I think it may have happened already.
Sunday, January 7, 2007 Livestock Gift Charities Do Not Help Poor Nations
LONDON-Sixty years after Heifer International founder Dan West pioneered the idea of soliciting donations to give livestock to poor families in disadvantaged parts of the world, criticism of the practice at last cracked major mainstream news media during the pre-Christmas 2006 peak giving season. Even Oprah does not escape criticism of her support for Heifer International by the Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition.
Monday, December 11, 2006 Humanitarian Crisis in Gorilla Habitat
While world media has been wringing its hands over inconclusive studies about the Ebola virus in lowland gorilla populations, the brave rangers who have been the first line of defense for the mountain gorilla have been caught in the middle of clashes between the Dissident General Laurant Nkunda and the FARDC near Jomba, DRC. The rangers and their families had to evacuate and many of them sought refuge in Uganda for nearly a week.
