Lara Pawson is the writing fellow at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand. She is working on a book about Angola.
African oil is sweeter and lighter than Middle Eastern crudes and in recent years it has begun to look increasingly desirable. For political reasons, it became especially attractive after 9/11, and today the US imports more oil from Africa than from the entire Persian Gulf. But there is competition: China now imports more than a quarter of its oil from African countries and Angola has...
Diane Williams talks about and reads from her new Collected Stories, with Lara Pawson.
Angolans sustained immense losses in the fight to end apartheid. It was certainly heroic, but it was ruinous too.
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