About Kyle G. Brown
Kyle G. Brown is a freelance writer and reporter for a number of publications and broadcasters, including the BBC, CBC and the Toronto Star.
He has unearthed stories of Mexican migrant workers who are lured to new lives in Canada only to find low pay, high rent and the economic misery they had sought to escape; street children in South Africa who are swept out of cities by the authorities, and subjected to physical and sexual abuse; elderly Canadians whose adult children appropriate their assets and clean them out; and a village of squatters in Denmark who have fought the government for decades to remain independent -in the middle of Copenhagen.
Kyle G. Brown has a BA in History from McGill University in Montreal and a Masters Degree from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. It’s an MSc in Development Studies, which focuses on the political and economic development of the Developing World. His focus has been on the political economy of Sub Saharan Africa, and on immigration and asylum among the Diaspora. He began his journalistic career in the UK, where he worked as a reporter, radio presenter and producer. He now files stories from a number of countries for radio, television and print – concentrating chiefly on social and human rights issues.