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A Parliament of Birds in South Sudan

by Stephen Chan

[ june 10 ]

"Every field command, anywhere, detests its high command. Every high command detests its political masters. The further you are from the field, the more death and suffering become notional."

The stirrings of a new nation in South Sudan

by Stephen Chan

[ june 10 ]

"South Sudan could become Africa's 54th state and a precedent for the stable Somaliland being recognised as an entity independent of the turmoils of the south. Suddenly the map of Africa could begin to change."

Wrong-headed

by Chantel Tattoli

[ june 10 ]

Reassessing our beloved Easter Island parable

McFate and Co

by Michael Griffin

[ may 10 ]

"Though experienced in building roads and wells in Zabul, Loyd was no more a qualified anthropologist than Ayala, a professional mercenary suffering 'prior dormant combat stress injuries' even before the killing."

Night and nowhere: Khujand to Istaravshan

by Ray Nayler

[ april 10 ]

"The car is drifting slowly through a Central Asian city at night. This particular city is Khujand, but it could be a city in almost any of the Central Asian 'Stans where I have spent most of the last six years of my life."

Conversations with a continent

by Ron Singer

[ february 10 ]

A series of panels of experts on Africa was held in New York. We present summaries of these panels.

East Seventh Street: Christmas, 1937

by Harry Reynolds

[ january 09 ]

"I am nine years old. There is a God. Jesus Christ is his son."

The Xaragua Hotel

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ october 08 ]

"Governments sink as often as the sun, and during the night there's always a purge. Somehow the Xaragua has managed to avoid it all. Immunity however, usually comes with a jab of the disease."

Starling's Law of the Heart

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ june 08 ]

"Despite Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the heart in the seventeenth century, blood letting went on for another three hundred years."

A grain of dissimilarity

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ may 08 ]

In Greek legend a chimere is a fearful, fire-belching monster with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. For Haitians it means a gangster.