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Non-fictionNovember 13, 2008
Out of Africa: The Traps of Safari Journalism
Two new books by African writers share many flaws with their Western predecessors.
Fatin Abbas
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Autobiography and MemoirMay 10, 2007
The New Face of Warfare
Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.
Fatin Abbas
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Books and IdeasSeptember 14, 2006
Short Takes
Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and The City Is a Rising Tide.
Fatin Abbas and Christine Smallwood
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Autobiography and MemoirMay 11, 2006
Dining With Devils
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.
Fatin Abbas
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Genocide and Ethnic CleansingJuly 14, 2005
Willing Executioners
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.
Fatin Abbas
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WorldMarch 10, 2005
Darfur and Development
The recent United Nations Commission of Inquiry’s report on Darfur may be right or wrong in claiming that the atrocities committed in the region do not amount to genocide.
Fatin Abbas