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Richard Dowden

Articles by Richard Dowden

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Dinner with Tutu and a day with the Barmy Army

  • 11 September 2008

"You were wonderful," beamed the archbishop, thanking the audience for their support in the anti-apartheid struggle. Several looked uneasily into their napkins

Blood, bullets and ice

  • 29 January 2007

Observations on diamonds

It's good to talk - even better to sell

  • 17 October 2005

Africa is changing fast. Aid and debt relief may help, but mobile phones and trade with China are proving even more vital

To save Africa we must listen to it

  • 14 March 2005

Africa special: the big picture - Their fault or our fault? The blame game doesn't help. More important is our attitude: we must now acknowledge that Africa will make its own future

African patience helps Mugabe

  • 15 December 2003

Observations on the Commonwealth summit

The Brits really are superior

  • 28 April 2003

Richard Dowden explains why the American forces, which operate like the German army and gear everything to military might, will make bad peacekeepers in Iraq

Our strange friends in the south

  • 21 April 2003

Only four African countries supported the war, and their leaders all have a taste for invading their neighbours. Richard Dowden fears they will be tempted to indulge it

Swaziland's conquering heroines

  • 19 August 2002

As world leaders descend on southern Africa to debate global ills, the continent faces its greatest ever catastrophe. Richard Dowden talks to HIV-positive women determined to change the world before they die

Old Rhodies never die. The whites are in final retreat in Southern Africa. Once again the mysterious continent has swallowed up all those who seek to change it. By Richard Dowden

  • 18 February 2002

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight: an African childhood
Alexandra Fuller Picador, 310pp, £15.99
ISBN 0330490230

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