G. Pascal Zachary

G. Pascal Zachary is a journalist, author and teacher. He spent 13 years as a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal (1989 to 2001) and writes regularly for newspapers, magazines and journals, including Salon, Foreign Policy, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Wilson Quarterly, Fortune and Alternet. Zachary concentrates on African affairs.

He also writes on globalization, America’s role in world affairs, immigration, race and identity and the dysfunctionalities and divisions in U.S. society.

Zachary teaches journalism at Stanford University. He has lectured on various campuses, including MIT, Caltech, Puget Sound, UC Berkeley, Connecticut and Tufts. He is a fellow at the Insitute for Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and a senior associate at the Nautilus Institute in San Francisco. Currently, he is writing a book on the political economy of sub-Saharan Africa and a memoir of his marriage to an African, the Igbo hair braider, Chizo Okon. They live with their children in the San Francisco Bay Area.

His personal website is www.gpascalzachary.com and he blogs at www.africaworksgpz.com.