Hilary Matfess

Hilary Matfess is a Ph.D. student at Yale University and the author of Women and the War on Boko Haram. Follow her on Twitter at: @HilaryMatfess.

Stories by Hilary Matfess

Members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo stand guard after an alleged attack by the Allied Democratic Forces rebels in Beni on Nov. 11, 2018.

In Africa, All Jihad Is Local

Argument |

May 16, 2019, 2:55 PM

A man closes a voting station in Kinshasa ahead of counting the ballots after presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Dec. 30, 2018.

No Democracy Is an Island

Argument |

Jeffrey Smith, Hilary Matfess

May 8, 2019, 2:38 PM

Musician turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi (C) is joined by other activists on July 11, 2018 in Kampala, Uganda during a protest against a controversial tax on the use of social media.

Africa’s Attack on Internet Freedom

Argument |

Hilary Matfess, Jeffrey Smith

July 13, 2018, 7:46 AM

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‘It Is Survival of the Fittest Here’

Dispatch |

April 3, 2015, 11:07 AM

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