Flight into danger
Flying has always attracted chancers and characters to Africa. Wilbur Smith’s father so loved aviation he named his son to…
Plunder from the palace
A book about the looted African art known as the Benin Bronzes begins by clarifying that most of them are…
The greatest surprise about Nigeria on its centenary is that it exists at all
A giant was born in 1914, an African giant. The same year European powers set about each other in the…
Deep in the heart of darkness
For decades, all the outside world knew was that Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader, had been done away with.…
