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The famous things they never said

  • 04 September 2008
  • 6 comments

The mystery of a famous quotation that cannot actually be found

The burden of knowing too much history

  • 31 July 2008
  • 11 comments

If, as a westerner, you are going to visit Africa, the earlier in your life you do it, the better

How a continent missed its moment

  • 03 July 2008
  • 10 comments

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

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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

  • 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

  • 17 January 2008
  • 11 comments

Should donors continue lending to the new government, which many Kenyans regard as illegitimate?

Some events demand a monument

  • 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

  • 25 October 2007
  • 51 comments

Michela Wrong reports on the tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the war brewing on the new frontier

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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