Peter Martell’s moving evocation of South Sudan’s slide into civil war
As British ambassador to South Sudan from 2015 to 2017, I was there for the second disastrous collapse of the…
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Dreams of the daughters: how a school in Zambia is tackling education for girls
“If you educate a woman, you educate a nation.”
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Shut up and write
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on art, citizenship and what it means to be “an African writer”.
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A year after the Zimbabwe coup, has anything changed?
“It’s home, but nothing’s changed for me to go home.”
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How the journalist captured for two and a half years by Somali pirates survived his ordeal
“I learned to live without hope – and that continues.”
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I was a regular kid, except for one thing – I was a citizen of nowhere
A terrifying childhood experience at the US border exposed me to the realities of being stateless.
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No, Nelson Mandela did not “snub” Jeremy Corbyn
But the tensions between different anti-apartheid groups were real.
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It’s easier to defend Margaret Thatcher’s actions in South Africa than Theresa May’s
Disclosures under the 30-year rule show that the Thatcher government’s secret role in the conflict was very different to its…
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