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The Nilotes in high steel
23 May 1997 • 1,809 words • Reportage & Criticism
For fifty years, Southern Sudan has been a locus classicus of the British tradition of social anthropology, its ethnographic literature subject to countless reassessments by… more»
The mask of beauty
1986 • 1,658 words • Reportage & Criticism
The Mende are a forest-dwelling West African people, currently numbering about a million, one of the two principal ethnic groups in what is now Sierra… more»
The many voices of Africa
2005 • 2,813 words • Reportage & Criticism
This has been the year of Africa, according to Our Common Interest, the report of the Commission for Africa. It’s been the year when a… more»
The lost library of Zanzibar
1985 • 3,298 words • Reportage & Criticism
Here in Zanzibar, two decades on, the revolution has preserved some things; others have been irrevocably destroyed. When the Arab elites fled in 1964 they left their coral-stone… more»
The joy of locks
21 April 2000 • 2,596 words • Reportage & Criticism
In Colored People, a memoir of his youth in West Virginia in the 1950s, the writer and critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. devotes a central… more»
The editor and the engineer
17 August 2001 • 1,659 words • Reportage & Criticism
Contemporary Ethiopian writing is, by and large, a closed book to English-speaking audiences, although the novel is an established genre in Amharic literature. At this point, at the start… more»
The anxiety of exoticism
20 October 1995 • 4,342 words • Reportage & Criticism
On a bookcase by a window in my house, catching the morning light, is an Akan wooden ritual stool from the Asante kingdom in Ghana,… more»
Sudan 2005: The future of peace
2 August 2005 • 753 words • Reportage & Criticism
The death of John Garang de Mabior, the south Sudanese leader, in a helicopter crash near the Ugandan border, has raised fears for the future… more»
Paul Theroux’s peevish passages
1 November 2002 • 1,390 words • Reportage & Criticism
Half way into his journey through Africa, Paul Theroux is standing by the… more»
New identities and old ideologies in Africa
1 May 1992 • 675 words • Reportage & Criticism
Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Cambridge-educated philosopher of Ghanaian and British descent who teaches… more»
