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The hierarchy of horrors

  • 27 September 2007
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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?

  • 06 September 2007
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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

  • 26 July 2007
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The bitter value of silence

  • 28 June 2007
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Two men in overcoats walked up to Serge Maheshe as he stood chatting to friends and shot him

What really makes a difference

  • 04 June 2007
  • 7 comments

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

Wolfowitz's other mistake

  • 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

  • 09 April 2007
  • 2 comments

How the infrastructure of many African states has now shrivelled away

A bumptious guide to book writing

  • 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

  • 12 February 2007
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What's the truth about Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski

War by proxy, but not the one we think

  • 15 January 2007
  • 13 comments

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

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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