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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 invisible enemy
29 November 1993 • 15,670 words • Reportage & Criticism
Route Ten in western Cambodia leads from the provincial capital, Battambang, the country’s second largest city, to mountains near the Thai border where a no-go… 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 coup in Sudan
2 May 1985 • 2,453 words • Reportage & Criticism
In Africa the fall of a tyrant does not always presage better times. Worse things have happened in Uganda since the overthrow of Idi Amin—worse… more»
The CIA in Khartoum
21 October 2004 • 856 words • Reportage & Criticism
Letter to the New York Review of Books In his review of Bill Clinton’s autobiography [NYRB, August 12], Garry Wills makes reference to the US… 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»
It’s guns that do the talking; books that set men free
August 1995 • 1,207 words • City of Words
Kodi Rahmatalla Kodi is in charge of logistics for the Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation… more»
A plague of locusts
May 1996 • 1,129 words • City of Words
Two weeks ago the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah returned to his native land for the first time in twenty-two years. He flew to Kismayo, the… more»