This is a book I was assigned in college, but never read until now (Sorry, professor). I’m glad I hung onto it. It is written by an English journalist who spent extensive time in Kenya during a time that can best be described as a Kenyan Watergate. The author writes mainly about the whistleblower...
The Congo bears a putrid history as a fruitful land constantly being pillaged and destroyed by leaders corrupted by endless greed. The reign of Mobutu Sese Seko, trademarked with the notorious leopard-skinned hat and pink champagne with which the greedy tyrant thrived, sickeningly juxtaposed the ...
A few weeks ago I thought, "I don't know nearly enough about Eritrea" so I made it a point to search out the book at the library. I got lucky enough to find it there. Since I get paid to know a lot about Africa, I thought it was about time for me to learn more about the country.I am definitely gl...
And the tigers are getting hungry.’ —Winston Churchill When the AFDL’s representatives started calling the BBC offices in Nairobi in late 1996, claiming they would march all the way to Kinshasa, journalists dismissed them with a weary shrug as yet another unknown guerrilla movement, the length of...
The road takes you through eucalyptus groves, whose leaves, in the early morning, give off a heady medicinal perfume, before crossing a plateau of almost unimaginable bleakness. When it came to power in 1993, Eritrea’s new government launched an ambitious reforestation campaign and brave green sa...