Walrus Magazine senior contributor 2018 to 2024. Long-form only. Has spent entire months on a single subject. Covers immigration, race and the law, policing, and Canadian identity. Finalist, National Magazine Awards 2021 and 2023.
Beats: long-form features, immigration, race and law, policing, Canadian identity
Contact: j.okafor@printmag.org
Climate control that runs all night. A camp setting that turns the back seat into a bedroom. A mode that keeps the dog safe and tells the parking lot so. A tow hook for the trailer, and software that steers itself toward the next place. Somewhere in the last few years the family electric crossover stopped being only a car. It became a small house you can move. That is genuinely wild, and it is also a quiet sentence about the country it parks in.
Canada flew thousands out of Kabul in August 2021, then promised to resettle forty thousand vulnerable Afghans. It met the number, and exceeded it. But the people the program was built for, the interpreters who worked beside Canadian soldiers, spent the most dangerous months of their lives waiting. A retrospective on a promise kept slowly.