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Essays & reportage Gordon Peake 11 February 2025 Coming across a “perfect moment” in literary Tangier
Books & arts Jim Davidson 20 May 2024 The extraordinary life — and death — of Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish patriot National affairs Michael Bartos 7 June 2020 Network effects, good and bad, have influenced responses to Covid-19 International Michael Bartos 1 August 2018 Regardless of the result, this week’s election has pressed the post-liberation reset button International Xan Rice 24 May 2018 Can the Kakuma refugee camp — former home to many Australian Sudanese — complete the transition to a thriving economy?
International Michael Bartos 16 November 2017 As the army asserts control, the legacy of the struggle against colonialism still hangs over Zimbabwean politics
International Natasha Ezrow 29 May 2017 The terrorist attack in Manchester has focused attention on chronic instability in Libya. But there are signs of progress International Paul Rogers 23 November 2015 The strategy against ISIS must recognise that this fourteen-year conflict hasn’t played out anywhere near as expected, writes Paul Rogers Books & arts Graeme Smith 18 September 2015 Books | Graeme Smith compares Howard French’s vivid account of China in Africa with his own research among Chinese migrants in the Pacific National affairs Nic Maclellan 23 April 2015 More French soldiers died at Gallipoli than Australians, writes Nic Maclellan, and many of the allied troops were African and Indian
International Sophie Rigney 22 October 2014 Three controversial judgements have highlighted the challenges facing the International Criminal Court as it prepares to move to its permanent home, writes Sophie Rigney
Essays & reportage Tom Bamforth 26 March 2014 In 2007, Tom Bamforth left post-earthquake Pakistan for a different crisis, the war in Darfur. As he describes in his new book, a whole culture was being lost through… International Klaus Neumann 5 November 2013 Africans living under the shadow of removal in Hamburg have been able to articulate their own agenda, writes Klaus Neumann, and football fans and residents are backing them Clar Ni Chonghaile 6 June 2013 The East African country needs to take hold of its own future, the celebrated Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina tells Clar Ni Chonghaile. And he is deeply ambivalent… Clar Ni Chonghaile 2 May 2013 The world’s largest refugee settlement is now telling its own stories, writes Clar Ni Chonghaile
Clar Ni Chonghaile 19 March 2013 Kenya’s enormous potential seems a step closer to reality after a relatively peaceful election. Now, the Supreme Court faces the delicate task of dealing with Raila…
Books & arts David Dorward 17 November 2012 David Dorward reviews three quite different books about Africa and its prospects Essays & reportage Larry Schwartz 12 September 2012 Nearly fifty years after her family left Cape Town’s apartheid-era District Six, Bonita Bennett is helping rescue the stories of its former residents, writes Larry Schwartz Books & arts Richard Johnstone 3 August 2012 Richard Johnstone reviews Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure Clar Ni Chonghaile 21 June 2012 Clar Ni Chonghaile finds signs of progress in the Somali capital
International Lindsey Hilsum 12 April 2012 Researching her new book, Lindsey Hilsum spoke to Libyan women about their role in post-Gaddafi politics
International Daniel Nethery 6 December 2011 Radio allowed Algerians to enter into a “vast network of information… a world where things happen… where forces act,” wrote Frantz Fanon. Daniel … Norman Abjorensen 30 November 2011 Last week’s election helps illuminate where Morocco fits into the Arab Spring, writes Norman Abjorensen Books & arts Lorenzo Veracini 16 September 2011 Julia Clancy-Smith’s Mediterraneans looks at a neglected period with contemporary resonance, writes Lorenzo Veracini Books & arts Daniel Nethery 7 September 2011 An optimistic account of the Tunisian revolution challenges stereotypes
Books & arts Klaus Neumann 26 August 2011 Perhaps ten million displaced people live in camps, often for years or even decades, writes Klaus Neumann
International I.M. Lewis 17 August 2011 The distinguished anthropologist I.M. Lewis discusses the background to the famine in Somalia Xan Rice 16 August 2011 Infection and death rates are down in many countries, writes Xan Rice. Now the challenge is to consolidate and extend those gains Daniel Nethery 1 August 2011 Daniel Nethery reports from post-revolutionary Tunis Xan Rice 25 July 2011 It’s becoming much easier to fly within Africa, writes Xan Rice as he visits the world’s newest nation