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• Mandela's Children

  by Alexandra Fuller + Follow

  National Geographic | June 2010

  South Africa is a vibrant, multiethnic democracy striving, with mixed success, to fulfill its promise. Photojournalist James Nachtwey offers a vision of contemporary life, and Alexandra Fuller tells an intimate story about the long shadow of apartheid.

• Mexico's Pilgrim Cowboys

  by Alexandra Fuller + Follow

  National Geographic | August 2007

  A brotherhood of horsemen in crisp white hats converges each January on a mountain in central Mexico. The journey honors Jesus Christ.

• Coming Home

  by Alexandra Fuller + Follow

  The Guardian | November 2002

  Alexandra Fuller has been nominated for a Guardian First Book Award for her memoir of a childhood in Africa. Here, posing as an American tourist, she returns to Zimbabwe to visit the valley she grew up in. Everything is astonishingly familiar - and yet fatally different.