Michela Wrong has worked for the Reuters news agency, the BBC and the Financial Times, and is now a columnist for the New Statesman. She is the author of In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (Harper Collins, 2002) and I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation (Harper Collins, 2004).
