Africa Works

G. Pascal Zachary, editor of Africa Works, is a writer, teacher and researcher. He writes often on African affairs and also writes and lectures on migration, identity, and diversity; technological change, media and culture; and globalization, international relations and political economy.

From 1989 to 2001, Zachary was a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal. He wrote the “Ping” column on technological change to The New York Times in 2007 and 2008. He is the author of four books, including “The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy” (2003) and “Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century” (1997). In January, 2009, Scribner published Zachary’s memoir, “Married to Africa: a love story.”

Born in Brooklyn, Zachary was raised on Long Island and studied philosophy at the University of Albany. He moved to northern California in 1978, where he joined the last staff of the Berkeley Barb, a dissenting weekly, and later was a reporter and columnist at the Santa Barbara News & Review, a worker-owned weekly. He then worked as a writer and editor for Williamette Week (Portland, Ore.), the San Jose Mercury News and Time Inc.’s Business 2.0 magazine. Over 25 years, he has published articles in many newspapers, magazines and journals, including Foreign Policy, Fortune, In These Times, Mother Jones, Project Syndicate, The New Republic, Wilson Quarterly and Wired.

Zachary has taught writing and journalism at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He has guest-lectured at other universities and received support from various foundations. Since 2000, he has visited sub-Saharan Africa more than 30 times. He has been interviewed on Africa by the BBC, CNN, Marketplace and other radio outlets.

Write him: g.zachary@gmail.com

Find his author’s website at: www.gpascalzachary.com.