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africa

Daniel Branch: At the Polling Station in Kibera · 24 January 2008

Hilary Mantel: Saartjie Baartman’s Ghost · 20 September 2007

  • When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of Aids in South Africa by Didier Fassin, translated by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro  Buy this book
  • The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against Aids by Helen Epstein  Buy this book

R.W. Johnson: Rivonia Days · 16 August 2007

  • The State v. Nelson Mandela: The Trial That Changed South Africa by Joel Joffe  Buy this book

Ben Rawlence: Diary · 26 April 2007

Anneke Van Woudenberg: Diary · 19 October 2006

Jeremy Harding: The Habit of War · 20 July 2006

  • I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
  • Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at War edited by Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Martin Plaut
  • Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa edited by Robert Rotberg

Andrew O’Hagan: Diary · 23 March 2006

R.W. Johnson: Burning Blankets · 7 July 2005

Bernard Porter: How did they get away with it? · 3 March 2005

  • Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire by David Anderson  Buy this book
  • Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya by Caroline Elkins  Buy this book

Hilary Mantel: I have washed my feet out of it · 21 October 2004

  • Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl by John Chernoff  Buy this book
  • Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl by John Chernoff  Buy this book
  • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Buy this book

Thomas Jones: Short Cuts · 9 October 2003

Michael Peel: Small America · 7 August 2003

Stanley Uys: Bush’s Bag · 7 August 2003

Patrick Collinson: The Cow Bells of Kitale · 5 June 2003

Megan Vaughan: Diary · 20 March 2003

Polly Hope: Can-do Rhodie · 8 August 2002

  • Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood by Carolyn Slaughter
  • Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
  • The Healing Land: A Kalahari Journey by Rupert Isaacson

Adewale Maja-Pearce: Feed the Charm · 25 July 2002

  • In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy by Ken Wiwa
  • This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis by Karl Maier
  • The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War by Stephen Ellis

Michael Peel: In Abuja · 25 July 2002

R.W. Johnson: Don’t you carry? · 25 April 2002

Jeremy Harding: The Late Jonas Savimbi · 21 March 2002

Neal Ascherson: The crocodiles gathered · 4 October 2001

  • The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte, translated by Ann Wright and Renée Fenby

Matthew Hughes: The Man Who Killed Hammarskjöld? · 9 August 2001

R.W. Johnson: Apocalypse Two · 21 June 2001

  • A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide by Linda Melvern

Adam Hochschild: War over a Handful of Corn · 21 June 2001

  • The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska

Richard Vinen: Electric Koran · 7 June 2001

  • Services Spéciaux Algérie 1955-57: Mon témoignage sur la torture by Paul Aussaresses
  • Appelés en Algérie: La Parole confisquée by Claire Mauss-Copeaux

Richard Pankhurst: Raider of the Lost Ark · 24 May 2001

  • The Pale Abyssinian: A Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer by Miles Bredin

Adewale Maja-Pearce: Onitsha Home Movies · 10 May 2001

R.W. Johnson: Diary · 10 May 2001

R.W. Johnson: How Mugabe came to power · 22 February 2001

R.W. Johnson: ‘Do they eat people here much still?’
‘Rarement. Très Rarement.’ · 14 December 2000

  • Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56 edited by Elizabeth Hodgkin and Michael Wolfers

Megan Vaughan: Kenneth Mdala · 16 November 2000

Landeg White: The Dignity of Merchants · 10 August 2000

  • In Search of Africa by Manthia Diawara

R.W. Johnson: South African Stories · 2 March 2000

Landeg White: Like What Our Peasants Still Are · 13 May 1999

  • Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes by Stephen Howe

Lewis Nkosi: At the Crossroads Hour · 12 November 1998

  • Chinua Achebe: A Biography by Ezenwa-Ohaeto

Charles van Onselen: Dead but Not Quite Buried · 29 October 1998

Michael Gilsenan: Diary · 1 October 1998

Nuruddin Farah: Country Cousins · 3 September 1998

R.W. Johnson: Rogue’s Paradise · 16 July 1998

  • The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War by Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova

Hilary Mantel: Number One Id · 19 March 1998

  • The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

agriculture

Hugh Pennington: Short Cuts · 21 February 2008

James Buchan: My Hogs · 18 October 2001

Andrew O’Hagan: The End of British Farming · 22 March 2001

Edward Luttwak: Sane Cows, or BSE isn’t the worst of it · 8 February 2001

Hugh Pennington: The English Disease · 14 December 2000

  • The BSE Inquiry by Lord Phillips et al

F.M.L. Thompson: Up Horn, down Corn · 5 March 1998

  • Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day by Joan Thirsk

anthropology

James Davidson: Adrift from Locality · 3 November 2005

  • Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins  Buy this book

Adam Kuper: Off the Verandah · 7 October 2004

  • Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist 1884-1920 by Michael Young  Buy this book

James Hamilton-Paterson: Not Altogether Lost · 19 June 2003

  • Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday by Robin Hemley

Adam Kuper: Clever, or even Clever-Clever · 23 May 2002

  • Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life by Stanley Tambiah
  • The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. I: Anthropology and Society by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw
  • The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. II: Culture and Human Nature by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw

Adam Kuper: Some Flim-Flam with Socks · 3 January 2002

  • Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post by J.D.F. Jones

Robin Fox: Anthropology as it should be · 9 August 2001

  • In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker

Paul Henley: A Generous Quantity of Fat · 2 September 1999

  • Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American South-West by Christy Turner and Jacqueline Turner
  • Cannibalism and the Colonial World edited by Francis Barker and Peter Hulme
  • Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne by Frank Lestringant, translated by Rosemary Morris
  • Chronicles of the Guayakí Indians by Pierre Clastres, translated by Paul Auster

Eric Korn: How far down the dusky bosom? · 26 November 1998

  • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin, edited by Paul Ekman

anti-semitism

Judith Butler: No, it’s not anti-semitic · 21 August 2003

archaeology

Thomas Jones: Short Cuts · 3 February 2005

Kathleen Jamie: Into the Dark · 18 December 2003

Mary Beard: Builder of Ruins · 30 November 2000

  • Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth by J.A. MacGillivray

architecture

Rosemary Hill: Impervious to Draughts · 22 May 2008

  • The English House by Hermann Muthesius, edited by Dennis Sharp, translated by Janet Seligman and Stewart Spencer  Buy this book

Peter Campbell: Function v. Rhetoric · 10 April 2008

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