Rwanda
How Rwanda became an oasis of liberal Islam
Kigali, Rwanda To most outsiders, Rwanda is still synonymous with genocide. Nearly a million killed in 100 days; almost three…
What Rwanda can teach us about gender equality
What an incredible statement we heard on My Perfect Country. ‘I can walk into a boardroom and forget I am…
‘Do black movies really not sell?’: Don Cheadle on Miles Ahead
The musical biopic is a staple of the Hollywood economy. Like an Airfix model kit it comes with the necessary…
Rwanda is sliding into a new tragedy. And this time we’re funding it
Never lighthearted, my African political exile friend sounded particularly lugubrious on the line from Washington. His voice was low and…
Portrait of the week
Home The Metropolitan Police encouraged people to celebrate VJ Day despite reports in the Mail on Sunday (picked up from…
Portrait of the week
Home Tens of thousands took part in a demonstration in London against austerity, and thousands more in other cities. Russell…
I want to do for field rations what Jamie Oliver did for school dinners
Hell’s Kitchen My ambition to open a fish and chip shop in Mogadishu has not happened yet, though I remain…
Was this Christian pioneer of radio evangelism a fraud?
She was the sequinned star of the airwaves back in the 1920s, the first preacher to realise the potential of…
There are echoes of Turkey and Armenia in the revisionist view of the Rwandan genocide
Kenya It’s a long time since I thought of Thaddee, our Kigali stringer when I was covering Rwanda for Reuters.…
Kate Chisholm on what makes the BBC World Service so special
‘Don’t take it for granted,’ she warned. ‘It’s one of the few places where you can hear diverse voices, different…
Brian Lara: Why I'm helping build a cricket stadium in Rwanda
Twenty years ago, in 1994, I had a golden summer. I scored 375 against England in Antigua, a Test record…
Before you talk about 'Lessons from Rwanda', read this
In Rwanda I was an ant walking over the rough hide of an elephant — this time 20 years ago…
Mortar fire, weddings, camels, the French revolution: all kind of things get in the way of cricket
It isn’t just the elk, either. Also bringing proceedings to a halt in this wonderful anthology are camels (Bahrain), cows…
Why I won’t let my children learn French
My children won’t learn French. If their school tries to force the issue, I’ll fight tooth and nail. There’ll be…
Land of Second Chances, by Tim Lewis - review
This is a book about Rwanda. It’s a book about cycling. But it’s not, in the end, a book about…
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