Siddharth Kara
Author, researcher and modern slavery activist
Siddharth Kara is a researcher and writer on modern slavery. His book Cobalt Red looks at cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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American Born in Knoxville, United States
About Siddharth Kara
Siddharth Kara is a New York Times bestselling author and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He has held academic positions at Harvard University, the University of California Berkeley and the University of Nottingham. He has written a trilogy on modern slavery: Sex Trafficking (2009), Bonded Labor (2012) and Modern Slavery (2017). He has also won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives appeared in 2023. The book is about how people work in the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.