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How a continent missed its moment
- Michela Wrong
- 03 July 2008
- 1 comment
Mbeki's grand project has been sabotaged by his inability to view events on the continent outside a narrow racial prism
Lessons from a beleaguered continent
- Michela Wrong
- 29 May 2008
- 7 comments
People cannot be left indefinitely to fester in unbearable living conditions, stripped of any hope
Why it's all about land
- Michela Wrong
- 17 April 2008
- 1 comment
In much of Africa today, the sad reality is that land is still the only asset guaranteed to retain its value
What made Kibaki blink?
- Michela Wrong
- 06 March 2008
- 8 comments
The donor community's stance was outrageous. Arrogant, high-handed, a clear challenge to national sovereignty, it verged on neocolonialism. And thank God for it
Don't mention the war
- Michela Wrong
- 14 February 2008
- 3 comments
Failing to acknowledge the elephant in the room means generations of cynical politicians have got away with blatant ethnic favouritism
The dilemma for Kenya's donors
- Michela Wrong
- 17 January 2008
- 10 comments
Should donors continue lending to the new government, which many Kenyans regard as illegitimate?
Some events demand a monument
- Michela Wrong
- 22 November 2007
- 1 comment
Amin was said to keep the heads of his victims fresh in a fridge to be brought out so he could scold them while he dined
War brews on the new frontier
- Michela Wrong
- 25 October 2007
- 50 comments
Michela Wrong reports on the tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the war brewing on the new frontier
The hierarchy of horrors
- Michela Wrong
- 27 September 2007
- 7 comments
Ask an ordinary Brit for his image of Africa, and you will get a collage of nightmarish visions of flyblown, skeletal children and vile diseases festering in tropical forests
Is it ever their money?
- Michela Wrong
- 06 September 2007
- 2 comments
Voters want proof their leader is living it up. If he can't secure a glamorous car for himself, how can he deliver on his promises to them?
