Richard Dowden
Articles by Richard Dowden
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Africa
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
Politics
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
Politics
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
World Affairs
African patience helps Mugabe
- 15 December 2003
Observations on the Commonwealth summit
World Affairs
The root of all evil. Robert Mugabe may be a bad man but, in the list of recent human rights abusers in Africa, it is absurd to put him in the top league. And like all pin-up Mr Evils, he is the product of political processes. By Richard Dowden
- 01 September 2003
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Brothers Under the Skin: travels in tyranny
Christopher Hope Macmillan, 280pp, £17.99
ISBN 1405005556
World Affairs
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
Politics
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
World Affairs
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
Books
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
