Africa
Afiya and me: searching for East Africa’s lost tribe
David Smith recalls his time as a journalist covering the devastating famine in Karamoja, northern Uganda, in the 1980s
Front line dictator
What the death of Idriss Deby Itno in battle means for the fight against Islamic terrorism
Unvarnished tyranny
This is perhaps the only book I have yet read about Amin which gives anything like an accurate assessment of who he was
Ethiopia weeps again
The Ethiopian prime minister’s Nobel Peace Prize appears increasingly ludicrous as he risks civil war
Africa’s Covid-19 response has humbled the Western world
Why is it that Africa has seemingly dealt with the coronavirus pandemic better than the rest of the world?
What does Black Lives Matter mean for Africa?
BLM have few words for the continent with the largest number of vulnerable black lives
Emperor Haile Selassie gets the Ozymandias treatment
The Ethiopian emperor has fallen in leafy Wimbledon, but there’s more to his demise than meets the eye
The perils of mind-altering substances in the Horn of Africa
Stifled by bureaucratic governments, many chew through tonnes of khat
Picturing Colonial Africa
Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
