[1] They are the author of A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa Okeowo grew up in Alabama, the child of Nigerian parents.

[5] In 2012, they won an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship to write about gay rights in Africa.

[6] They became a staff writer at the New Yorker in 2015 and is working on a book about people standing up to extremism in Africa at the New America Foundation.

[7] Their 2017 book A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa was reviewed favorably.

[11] The Christian Science Monitor called Okeowo one of the "finest war and foreign correspondents" at The New Yorker: "Alexis Okeowo, who was named a staff writer in late 2015, is continuing the tradition of the foreign correspondent who takes considerable personal risks driven by the conviction that all stories deserve to be told, particularly those that require a great deal of courage to uncover in the first place.