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The man who bought a rainforest
1988 • 5,781 words • Reportage & Criticism
We are making our way along a remote fjord in southern Chile, against the wind and tide. There are three of us in the boat:… more»
The trial of the Derg in Ethiopia
1996 • 10,792 words • Reportage & Criticism
In late 1994—and again in 1995—I travelled to Addis Ababa to report on the trial of the Derg, the former rulers of Ethiopia. The trial… more»
Endgame in Africa
February 1999 • 4,015 words • Reportage & Criticism
The dilemmas of wildlife conservation are nowhere more acute or consequential than in Eastern and Central Africa, in the countries of the Great Rift Valley,… more»
Disaster in Darfur
12 August 2004 • 3,948 words • Reportage & Criticism
Darfur is a 160,000-square-mile expanse of desert and savannah, an area the size of Texas or Spain, with five or six million inhabitants, that spreads… more»
Contested histories in Zimbabwe
22 June 2016 • 1,408 words • Reportage & Criticism
The Zimbabwe International Book Fair, the largest book fair south of the Sahara, is one of few such events to take place entirely in the… more»
Burying the Emperor
April 2001 • 9,761 words • Reportage & Criticism
It was the twenty-sixth day of Tikimt in the Ethiopian year 1993—November 5th, 2000, in the Gregorian calendar. Amid a throng of mourners and onlookers,… more»
A reporter’s Africa
1 November 2008 • 1,201 words • Reportage & Criticism
People shouldn’t write books about Africa. Not the whole of Africa. When was the last time you saw a book that aspired to cover Eurasia,… more»
1998: What Britain could do to stop famine in Sudan
27 July 1998 • 1,222 words • City of Words
Ranald Boyle is the former colonial District Commissioner of Gogrial, in Bahr al-Ghazal,… more»
The great deception
2 September 1995 • 1,833 words • City of Words
As the regime of Saddam Hussein and his son Uday approaches—hopefully—its final days, spare a thought for Fawaz-al-Emari. He is—or is said to be—the dictator’s… more»
Divine right and the death of kings
18 January 1998 • 1,511 words • City of Words
Three hundred and fifty years ago in Whitehall, in London, on a make-shift scaffold outside the Banqueting House—Inigo Jones’ then newly-built extension to the Royal… more»
