Robbie Corey-Boulet is a journalist and former senior editor of World Politics Review. He is currently the Riyadh bureau chief of Agence France-Presse. Prior to that, he was the Ethiopia/African Union correspondent for Agence France-Presse. Before joining WPR in 2017, he worked as a freelance journalist in West and Central Africa for six years, reporting primarily for the Associated Press. He also received a two-year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to research LGBT activism and anti-LGBT discrimination in Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Liberia. His writing has been published by The Guardian, The Nation, Al Jazeera America, Critical African Studies, World Policy Journal and Guernica, among others. He has a bachelor’s degree in urban studies and economics from Brown University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. Twitter: @rcoreyb.
