Out of Africa
Too many African schools worship the idea of education but then teach nothing useful. A school in rural Uganda points the way to a brighter future
Educating Akello
A small girl I encounter outside a Ugandan refugee camp somehow persuades me to pay her school fees. I soon find myself caught up in an ambiguous African story of doubt, mistrust and guilt
Out of Africa
Uncle Sam unwittingly brings peace to Somalia. The problem of old men in Africa. And is the international criminal court an obstacle to peace?
Out of Africa
Kinshasa's general hospital has stood through revolution, civil war and civic breakdown. It is a touchstone of change in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Out of Africa
Neglectful rulers and faddish aid policies have led to the steady decline of African universities. Are they now due for a rebirth? Plus the truth about remittances
Out of Africa
Three of Africa's big leaders—Mbeki, Obasanjo and Museveni—need a successor. Is it time for more women leaders on the continent?
Out of Africa
China is reintroducing a bit of geopolitical competition to Africa, and undermining western "conditionality." And watch out for Kenya's transport minister
The captured state
Elites in the Asian tiger countries run the state in the public interest. In most of Africa, elites run the state in their own interests. Matthew Lockwood has written the best Africa book this year
Rwanda ten years on (1)
Why did the west ignore Rwanda? One reason was the distraction of South Africa's first elections
Clare Short
The conscience of the Blair cabinet is a leading exponent of globalisation with a human face. The leftist republican has become a benign imperialist. Just don't criticise her policy on Rwanda
A light in the Congo
Half of Africa is heading for hell, while in the rest life is improving surprisingly fast. Under Laurent Kabila, the new Democratic Republic of Congo could become the continent's dynamic heart
The return of the kings
Africa's crises cannot be solved by redrawing borders. But economic reform, the decline of the urban middle class and the rise of tribalism are dissolving the old centralised post-colonial state
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