topic: dictatorship

On November 8, Burma will vote in the first competitive election in a generation. Yet these polls have been widely described as flawed ,...

Most people who move to Malindi, a small, sleepy resort town on Kenya’s coast, are exiles of one sort or another. The Italians, who form a...

Preface Frankétienne (1936-) is considered one of the most important figures in twentieth and twenty-first century Haitian literature and...

In Argentina, when we find ourselves referring to Madres with capital M we unequivocally mean the mothers of the desaparecidos ; the...

The publication of Clan-cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 by Lidwien Kapteijns has aroused deeply contrasting reactions from...

In 1990, ten years after Robert Mugabe took power as the leader of an independent Zimbabwe, I spent six months living and working there. I...