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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Politics
Fertile ground for the bad guys
- 30 August 2004
As politicians focus on Darfur, another African conflict threatens open warfare again. And the west's record on the Ethiopia-Eritrea dispute does not inspire confidence. A special report from Michela Wrong
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong honours an African leader
- 16 August 2004
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When war with Ethiopia started anew, a generation of Eritreans realised they'd spent most of their life fighting for a cause and seen it triumph, only to watch another conflict emerge
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong celebrates a new Kenya
- 02 August 2004
The corruption, the poverty and the potholes in the roads are still there. Yet on my latest visit to Kenya, I was more excited than ever before. The country has awoken from its torpor
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong doubts Bob Geldof can help Africa
- 07 June 2004
Since the planes crashed into the twin towers, African countries have known that to receive western aid, they must be seen as furthering western security interests
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong has mixed feelings about charity
- 24 May 2004
By providing food that averts a famine, charities protect dictators from the people's wrath. So is it best to cut out the middleman and help individual Africans directly?
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong argues for diluted justice in Africa
- 10 May 2004
When it comes to Africa, our thirst for justice is best not satisfied: let corrupt leaders know that giving up control means a life in peaceful exile, and they may consider doing so
World view - Michela Wrong wants more corpses on television
- 26 April 2004
Television should show us more corpses from Iraq. The sight of what violence can do to the human body is the most potent anti-war message around
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong notes the failings of diplomats
- 12 April 2004
Diplomats have the same faults as foreign correspondents: they don't get out enough, they socialise too much with their own kind and they don't know the local language
World Affairs
World view - Michela Wrong warns that Tutsis haven't forgotten
- 29 March 2004
We can expect a flood of criticism of Rwanda's leadership since the genocide, and there is much to condemn. But we must recognise why the Tutsis are slow to forgive and forget
