--- title: Alex Perry | TIME description: Alex Perry is an author and TIME contributor who has covered Africa, Asia and the Middle East. His latest book, The Rift: the Future of Africa, will be published in late 2014. canonical: https://time.com/author/alex-perry/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/alex-perry/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Alex Perry ## Alex Perry Alex Perry is an author and TIME contributor who has covered Africa, Asia and the Middle East. His latest book, _The Rift: the Future of Africa_, will be published in late 2014. ## Alex Perry *  Mar 11, 2013 ### [Pistorius and South Africa's Culture of Violence](https://time.com/3318830/pistorius/) The Olympian and his girlfriend seemed to have the perfect romance--until he killed her [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Nov 8, 2012 ### [Under Mugabe: Robin Hammond Records the Suffering of Zimbabwe](https://time.com/3793333/under-mugabe-robin-hammond-records-the-suffering-of-zimbabwe/) Living on a grant from the Carmignac Foundation, Robin Hammond's work records the brutality and stru... [WORLD](/section/world/) * ![The following photos were taken in June 2012
Women enter a hospital in Mogadishu, which has become more active since Al-Shabaab was pushed out of the city. ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3829ce7ab39afd5/69879f61a988ca06896ae5f0/nad2012014g05060330.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Aug 6, 2012 ### [Somalia in Transition: Photographs by Dominic Nahr](https://time.com/3790648/somalia-in-transition-photographs-by-dominic-nahr/) TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr traveled to Somalia to photograph Mogadishu's return to life... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Mar 16, 2012 ### [On the Ground: Safe from #Kony?](https://time.com/3787096/on-the-ground-safe-from-kony/) TIME reports from the Central African village where the U.S. Military has set up camp to help track ... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Feb 28, 2012 ### [The African Spring: Senegal by Dominic Nahr](https://time.com/3786562/senegal-spring/) TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr documents the opposition movement in Senegal, which is hopin... [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-perry/","name":"Alex Perry"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-perry/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-perry/"},"name":"Alex Perry","jobTitle":null,"description":"Alex Perry is an author and TIME contributor who has covered Africa, Asia and the Middle East. His latest book, The Rift: the Future of Africa, will be published in late 2014.","url":"https://time.com/author/alex-perry/","sameAs":["https://x.com/PerryAlexJ"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```