Fatumbi, The Island of All Saints / Fatumbi, A Ilha de Todos os Santos

Marco André, Almir da Ilha and Mauricio 100

22 June, 2016  •  340 words  •  Translations

Shine down on us, divine gift!
This child of destiny, in thrall to Ifá
Crossing the sea with our island … more»

Godfrey’s gift

7 May 1994  •  1,827 words  •  Memorials

For Godfrey Lienhardt—"Thienydeng" as he was known among Muɔnyjang, the Dinka people of Sudan—the occasions of teaching and learning extended beyond his office in the… more»

A visit to Seydou’s studio

1997  •  1,312 words  •  Reportage & Criticism

In the first decades of the twentieth century, while the French Cubists were discovering African sculpture, the tools of another art, photography, were travelling in… more»

The Sudan Handbook

Edited by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo and Jok Madut Jok

2011  •  392 words  •  Books

The handbook covers Sudan, South Sudan and the North-South borderlands. It offers an authoritative introduction to the two countries, rooted in an historical account of the development of the state. The book comprises a set of eighteen essays by specialists including Abdelrahman Ali Mohammed, Peter Woodward, Gérard Prunier, Jérôme Tubiana, Derek Welsby, and Ahmad Sikainga. It is edited by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo and Jok Madut Jok. … more»

The Ruins of Utopia

8 May 1999  •  9,826 words  •  Research

If we had been living in the era of Sir Thomas More–St Thomas More—author of the original Utopia, who lived from 1478 to 1535, we would be speaking in Latin, the lingua franca of learned people… … more»

An African Nuremberg

2 October 1995  •  12,592 words  •  Reportage & Criticism

In Addis Ababa, on the thirteenth of December 1994, a blue bus with curtained windows, escorted by a motorcycle outrider and a pair of glinting all-terrain vehicles,… more»

A cloud over Gorée Island

10 November 1997  •  1,189 words  •  City of Words

The island of Gorée, two miles offshore from Dakar in Senegal, has been called Africa’s Buchenwald. The first of a string of fortresses built by… more»

Death and the writer

8 December 1995  •  963 words  •  City of Words

The late Ken Saro-Wiwa’s jail diary, A Month and a Day, is a grim example of the literature of confinement. a conscript genre that forcibly… more»

Report of an Investigation into Oil Development, Conflict and Displacement in Western Upper Nile, Sudan (2001)

October 2001  •  3,321 words  •  Research

This report documents and places into context… … more»