A revealing question: Why has VS Naipaul come to be much better known in the West than
the great African writer Chinua Achebe? The two men are virtually the same age; Achebe …

We are introduced to the theme of AC Jordan's novel by the quotation: For God's sake, let us
sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings. It is no accident that this …

WHEN, some years ago, Victor Hugo said that in the twentieth century Africa would be the
cynosure of every eye, and when, more recently, Lord Salisbury, apropos of the European …

“The West will begin to understand Africa when it realizes it's not talking to a child—it's
talking to its mother.” So writes Jeff Pearce in the introduction to his fascinating …

Born to Rule is the autobiography of an African-president monarch who does not want to
pass away without leaving anything in writing to future generations. The book is more than …