Alex Perry

Alex Perry is an award-winning author and correspondent, and a contributing editor to Newsweek. He has reported from around 100 countries around the world and covered 35 wars. His latest book,The Rift: Stories from the New Africa, will be published worldwide in 2015. His previous books includeFalling Off The Edge: Globalization, World Peaceand Other LiesandLifeblood: How to Change the World, One Dead Mosquito at a Time.He is also the author of The Hunt for Boko Haram: investigating the terror tearing Nigeria apart, the first book in the Newsweek Insights series.