Africa

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?

Mystery of Mobutu's millions

• Michela Wrong
• 26 July 2007
• 2 comments

The bitter value of silence

• Michela Wrong
• 28 June 2007
• 2 comments

Two men in overcoats walked up to Serge Maheshe as he stood chatting to friends and shot him

What really makes a difference

• Michela Wrong
• 04 June 2007
• 7 comments

I like to think I've developed an instinctive humbug detector

Wolfowitz's other mistake

• Michela Wrong
• 07 May 2007
• 4 comments

Wolfowitz's technique, by all accounts, consisted of allowing aides brought in from the Bush administration to humiliate World Bank officials with decades of experience

Birthday thoughts on the road to Thika

• Michela Wrong
• 09 April 2007
• 2 comments

How the infrastructure of many African states has now shrivelled away

A bumptious guide to book writing

• Michela Wrong
• 12 March 2007

Michela offers a helping hand to would be authors on Africa - so long as they're female

Kapuscinski, more magical than real

• Michela Wrong
• 12 February 2007
• 1 comment

What's the truth about Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski

War by proxy, but not the one we think

• Michela Wrong
• 15 January 2007
• 13 comments

The price of allowing the dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea to fester