Cassie Knight

Cassie Knight is currently living with her BBC correspondent husband, Mark Dummett, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, but previously spent five years in Congo Brazzaville with Catholic Relief Services: a single woman in a largely male and often violent world. During those years, she saw this fascinating country lurch from one civil war to another, came face to face with the aggressive Ninja militia and met the Ba’aka pygmies who still cling to their traditional way of life in the rainforests of the country’s northern region. At once a personal story and a portrait of a small but significant African nation, BRAZZAVILLE CHARMS weaves history and superstition into an absorbing and vivid study and was published by Frances Lincoln in 2007.

Cassie continues to work as an aid worker for the CRS in India.