Michela Wrong
Michela Wrong has spent 13 years reporting on the African continent and is the author of two non-fiction books, "In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz," about the Congolese dictator Mobutu, and "I didn't do it for you", about the Red Sea nation of Eritrea.
Articles by Michela Wrong
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Society
When the money goes west
- 14 March 2005
Africa special: corruption - If the ill-gotten gains of the corrupt elite went into, say, mobile-phone companies at home, it wouldn't be so bad. But the funds always go overseas
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong asks a murderous question
- 28 February 2005
Told your country was in danger, and your sister-in-law was one of its enemies, could you kill her and her children? That was roughly the question that faced Rwanda's Hutus
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong overhears diaspora gossip
- 14 February 2005
In a diaspora, there is no such thing as privacy. Everyone knows everyone else's business, whose father worked as a collaborator, whose uncle committed adultery
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong stands up on her pen in Nairobi
- 31 January 2005
We may have forgotten colonialism but, as the newspapers show, Kenyans believe Britain is still trying to control them - by, for example, selling them sub-standard school textbooks
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong breaks our African tribal taboo
- 17 January 2005
Writing about Africa without mentioning the role of tribalism and witchcraft is like writing about British fox-hunting without mentioning class
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong sees desperation in Nairobi
- 06 December 2004
Africa's technological revolution seems the real thing. But it is just like Kenyan Cheddar: it has all the capacity to excite and seduce - only ultimately to madden and disappoint
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong
- 22 November 2004
Everyone is confident about Kenya's future - yet, close-up, the ingredients are there for the same Molotov cocktail that has exploded in Ivory Coast. By Michaela Wrong
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong is tired of Big Man foreign policy
- 11 October 2004
Since colonial times, western policy in Africa has operated by wooing the local Big Man and ensuring he hits it off with one's own Big Man. This is then called looking at the Big Picture
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong despairs of Africa's red tape
- 27 September 2004
It takes 19 separate procedures to start a business in Chad, the world's ninth-poorest country, yet Australia and Canada get by with just two. Red tape is choking Africa, reports Michela Wrong
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong introduces the Incontinent
- 13 September 2004
Are those who call themselves "war correspondents" really brave? Some are, and I would divide them into three categories: the Insane, the Ignorant and the Incontinent
