Chris Brazier

Chris Brazier’s first job after his English Literature degree at Nottingham University was as a staff reporter on the rock music weekly Melody Maker, a position he managed to talk himself into in 1977 by virtue of having followed the Sex Pistols, The Clash and other seminal punk bands from their earliest days.

After a rollercoaster couple of years he left the music business in search of something ‘more meaningful’ and spent the next few years doing social work, travelling in Asia, taking a postgraduate diploma in television and radio production, and ultimately working for the feminist-socialist monthly The Leveller.

He joined the New Internationalist Co-operative as a co-editor in 1984. Among his most cherished projects has been returning every ten years to a particular village in Burkina Faso, West Africa, to report on the changes in the community and the lives of particular families. Since 1996 he has also written regularly for UNICEF, principally for their regular reports State of the World’s Children and Progress for Children. He is author of Vietnam: The Price of Peace (Oxfam, 1992), The No-Nonsense Guide to World History (NI, 2001, revised edition 2006) and Trigger Issues: Football (NI, 2007). He also compiled the NI anthologies Raging Against the Machine (2003) and Brief Histories of Almost Anything (2008).


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