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Fatin Abbas

Fatin Abbas, a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Harvard University, writes frequently on African affairs.

Currently

  • The New Face of Warfare

    May 10, 2007

    Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.

2006

  • Short Takes

    September 14, 2006 Subscribe

    Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and The City Is a Rising Tide.

  • Dining With Devils

    May 11, 2006

    Wole Soyinka's You Must Set Forth at Dawn is a captivating memoir of the political and cultural dilemmas the author and activist encountered, and a compelling chronicle of Nigeria's turbulent past.

2005

  • Willing Executioners

    July 14, 2005 Subscribe

    Machete Season is an attempt to trace what went on in the minds of the Hutus who helped exterminate their Tutsi fellow citizens in Rwanda.

  • Darfur and Development

    March 10, 2005

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