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To conserve you must transform
15 April 2005 • 4,998 words • Research
Earlier today, in Leenco Lata’s absence, I read out on his behalf the paper he prepared for this conference. In doing so I took on the role of one who in the Dinka language—thong muonyjaang—would be called agamlong, or interpreter. … more»
The voyage to the south
10 October 2004 • 1,762 words • Reportage & Criticism
In his novel, The Stone Raft (1986), the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago imagines the entire Iberian Peninsula breaking away from Europe and drifting across… more»
Violence and power in Brazil
August 2004 • 8,455 words • Reportage & Criticism
How violent is Brazil? Is it more dangerous than other big, modernizing countries of the South? Or is this lurid picture the result of a… more»
The view from Guava Ground
1991 • 6,150 words • Reportage & Criticism
There were storms below us in the John Crow Mountains, where the Black River meets the Rio Grande. The plane was bucking in the high… more»
The sweetest poison
1 December 1985 • 661 words • Reportage & Criticism
Obesity, heart disease, tooth decay, slavery. When it comes to white powders and their attendant evils, cocaine can’t hold a candle to cane sugar. There’s… more»
The perfection of the pencil
11 November 1990 • 1,018 words • Reportage & Criticism
In that lowly drawer, the one with the log-jam of dried-up fibre-tips and leaky fountain pens, empty ballpoints and broken wax crayons—all the state-of-the-art writing… 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»
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»
Mass graves old and new
15 October 2004 • 2,228 words • Reportage & Criticism
Not long ago I took time off from the round of aid agencies and government departments in Khartoum to follow the road north, past the… more»
Lisbon, 1986
1986 • 4,864 words • Reportage & Criticism
It’s autumn in Lisbon—October, going on November. The elections are over; tourists have departed; the chestnut season is just beginning. On the outskirts of the… more»
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