JAKARTA, INDONESIA, circa 1971- “If you want to grow into a human being”, my Mum would say to me, “you’re going to need some values” Honesty-Lolo should not have hidden t...
By Timothy White Bob Marley was slow in warming to the Rasta way of knowledge. He heard about it constantly from Rita, who never tired of describing Selassie’s visit in 1...
Chief was sitting on a gilded chair that looked like a throne, sipping cognac and surrounded by guests. He sprang up. A smallish man, high spirited and ebullient. “Nneoma...
She put miles behind her, put behind her the counterfeit sanctuaries and endless chains, the murder of Valentine farm. There was only the darkness of the tunnel, and some...
By J P Clark Earlier, in the elevator going up, I had started what turned out to be a proper prologue. ‘I have a letter for the editor’ I said. Oh, have you? And where is...
I remember my first one-on-one conversation with Jacob Zuma as though it was yesterday. It took place on 25 May 2009, at the height of our very public confrontation over...
‘I’m not trying to argue. Look, how can I help?’ ‘I just feel that . . . having another . . . a young child around . . . it would distract her, I’m sure. From her work.’...
IN ABIDJAN, WHEN THE COPS SEE A bad guy with a gun in his hand, they don’t stop and chat, they shoot him quick like a deer or a rabbit and ask questions later. One day, t...
By Chimeka Garricks We did not play football that day. As we burst through the bamboo thicket onto the beach, we were stopped by an apparition. We stared in disbelief. Th...
By Alaa Al Aswany He burned with longing to know whether this was the officer who had supervised his torture in detention, but he had not been frank with Mahgoub about th...
