Simon Akam
Articles by Simon Akam
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Africa
The vagabond king
- 02 February 2012
- 3 comments
When 25-year-old Valentine Strasser seized power in Sierra Leone in 1992, he became the world’s youngest head of state. Today he lives with his mother and spends his days drinking gin by the roadside. What went wrong?
Travel
Spirit of the woods
- 25 June 2009
Simon Akam experiences the calm of an artists’ retreat in upstate New York with an impressive visitors’ book
Society
Old wound, same pain
- 11 June 2009
The conquest of the Wild West left North America’s first inhabitants scattered, diseased and broken. Can they find a panacea at the gambling table?
Books
Tsars in their eyes
- 19 February 2009
The Coronation Boris Akunin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 311pp, £16.99
Travel
Peak practice
- 12 February 2009
- 1 comment
Cycling in mountainous, jagged Norway is not for the faint-hearted, as Simon Akam discovers
North America
Dancing in Harlem's streets
- 05 November 2008
- 11 comments
As the US strolls into a brighter future Simon Akam enjoyed the historic moment in Harlem as black and white Americans celebrated the election of Barack Obama to be president
