How can one sum up Naipaul’s long, almost obsessive, engagement with Africa, a continent he clearly does not like?

A necessary – and mutually applauded – security measure taken by Guinean forces during Sierra Leone’s brutal rebel war has since the…

James Joyce was right that history is a nightmare, the African American writer James Baldwin wrote, reflecting in a somnolent Swiss village…

As soon as I saw the very exact note directing me from the plane through immigration and to the parking lot outside,…

The peaceful transfer of power from ruling party to opposition after democratic elections still merits headlines in West Africa. When this happens…

The most difficult ones to deal with, the earnest UN official told me, are the “teenage ruffians.” I was talking to him…

For brief, fleeting moments almost every decade now, the rich world tends to embrace Africa – a continent badly wracked by poverty,…

There is something almost freakish about Guinea, a West African nation of deceptive size (it is as big as the UK but…

Dramatic atrocities, extreme human suffering and the cruelties and psychosis of dirt poverty and slum life make for memorable documentaries, and the…

The signs never looked very good for President Olusegun Obasanjo. In early May, 42 Nigerian Senators – five more than is necessary…