The truth about the Rwandan genocide
Today a solemn ceremony takes place in Rwanda’s capital. President Paul Kagame, flanked by international dignitaries – including our own…
The fresh, forceful voice of Frantz Fanon
The Marxist from Martinique became a rallying figure for anti-colonial movements across the world. But might he have revised his violent message had he lived longer?
Why were 80,000 Asians suddenly expelled from Uganda in 1972?
Lucy Fulford never fully explains how this community was so easily scapegoated, nor why Idi Amin’s decree caused such jubilation across East Africa at the time
Is anywhere safe for Paul Kagame’s critics?
Is anywhere safe for Kagame’s critics?
Hotel Rwanda: why does Kagame want to take in Britain’s asylum seekers?
Why is Paul Kagame agreeing to accommodate Britain’s asylum seekers?
When will Britain wake up to the horror of Rwanda’s President?
When will Britain wake up to the horror of Paul Kagame’s rule?
A century of Ethiopia’s turbulent history, seen through the life of one woman
Yetemegn was barely eight years old when her parents married her off to a man in his thirties. Before she…
Rwanda is sliding into a new tragedy. And this time we’re funding it
The ultimate ‘donor darling’ is becoming a dictatorship whose critics live in fear
The King of Kings and I: Haile Selassie, by his great nephew
Great men rarely come smaller than Haile Selassie. In photographs, the golden crowns, pith helmets and grey felt homburgs he…
A murder mystery in Zimbabwe
This novel comes with two mysteries attached, one substantial, the other superficial. The big mystery is the author’s identity. Gender-neutral,…
Refugees and resilience: a story of Africa
I would love to sit in on a Jonny Steinberg interview. Over the years this South African writer has perfected…
Witnesses in the heart of darkness
When presented with a 639-page doorstopper which includes 82 pages of closely-written sources, notes and index, most of us feel…
How to get around South Africa's many boundaries
There are writers whose prose style is so fluid, so easy, the reader feels as though he has been taken…
Letter from Somaliland
Ayan Mahamoud, one of the organisers of Hargeysa’s International Book Fair, has all the girly vulnerability of a factory-tested steel…
