Books & arts
12 July 2011
Annika Lems reviews anthropologist Michael Jackson’s illuminating account of his return to the village of Firawa in Sierra Leone
Essays & reportage
30 June 2011
Compassion as a motivator for action is overrated, writes Klaus Neumann, but Go Back to Where You Came from is a reminder that it’s not a bad starting point
27 June 2011
Xan Rice reports from the Libyan capital, Tripoli
15 May 2011
Xan Rice reports from Benghazi and Misrata on the impact of the war in Libya
Books & arts
11 May 2011
West African countries supply two-thirds of the world’s chocolate, but spreading the benefits might take more than Quaker capitalism or Fairtrade, writes Brett Evans
10 May 2011
There’s a strange silence about the French president’s enthusiasm to intervene in Libya, reports Daniel Nethery in Paris
Essays & reportage
10 May 2011
Backed by Lindsay Tanner, two initiatives in Melbourne are taking on the obstacles that face qualified Africans applying for professional jobs, reports Ralph Johnstone
20 April 2011
Kenyans are leapfrogging landlines and going straight to mobile, with enormous social and economic implications, writes Xan Rice
15 April 2011
Hardliners are now a decided minority among Afrikaners, report Edward Cavanagh and Emile Coetzee in South Africa
18 March 2011
President Kibaki and his allies continue to resist an international trial of alleged perpetrators of the 2007 post-election violence, writes Xan Rice
11 February 2011
Ghana has its fair share of developmental headaches, but a heavy handed government isn't one of them, writes Aleks Vickovich
17 January 2011
With counting under way in the southern Sudan independence referendum, Xan Rice meets up again with a former resident of the Kakuma refugee camp, Philip Ngor Bol
Essays & reportage
14 July 2010
When GlaxoSmithKline announced a series of initiatives to improve access to drugs in least-developed countries, its most radical proposal was for a “patent pool” to…
6 May 2010
Amid preparations for Sudan’s controversial election last month, Xan Rice met a Sudanese man from Sydney who was looking well beyond election day
International
14 January 2010
China’s decision to resist binding emissions targets at Copenhagen gives a glimpse of a country with big and sometimes conflicting plans for growth, trade and influence,…
Essays & reportage
9 January 2010
GlaxoSmithKline created waves last year with a promise of cheaper drugs and patent waivers in developing countries. In this special report Qudsiya Karrim in Johannesburg…
Essays & reportage
26 November 2009
For World AIDS Day 2009, Dennis Altman surveys the key international issues in prevention and treatment
International
6 August 2009
How international involvement helped fuel the growth of militancy
8 April 2009
The less glorious traditions of the ANC have been on vivid display during South Africa’s election campaign, writes Nic Dawes
22 January 2009
Zimbabweans are trying all sorts of remedies in the absence of a functioning healthcare system, reports Masimba Biriwasha in Harare