Douglas Foster is an award-winning investigative journalist, former editor of Mother Jones, and documentary producer who now teaches feature writing to graduates and undergraduates while overseeing the Journalism Residency Program in South Africa. His writing appears in The Atlantic, Columbia Journalism Review, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, Salon, and The Washington Post. (Full Bio)

In After Mandela, Foster examines the difficulties that South Africans - particularly the country's youth - encounter in navigating what one reviewer called "two very distinct South Africas: the cosmopolitan, globalizing world inhabited by the country's rainbow elite who reside in its largest cities, and the other world still governed by tradition, where polygamy continues, patriarchy wields power, and improvements in health, education and new economic opportunities are slow in coming."