• The whole world in her home

    Journalist Melissa Fay Greene talks about the enormity of the African AIDS crisis and why, as the mother of five, she decided to adopt four Ethiopian orphans.
    By Curtis Sittenfeld September 12, 2006

  • The battle of Dimawe

    An African whodunit: The Botswana economic miracle
    By Andrew Leonard September 8, 2006

  • Stupid Chinese imperialist bullying

    China pouts, and threatens to take its toys away from Zambia
    By Andrew Leonard September 7, 2006

  • Rent-a-coup

    In 2004, a mix of rich white men and mercenaries attempted to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. Why? Greed -- and boredom.
    By Laura Miller August 17, 2006

  • Bono: Capitalist tool?

    U2's frontman and Forbes media: Strange bedfellows for the globalization set
    By Andrew Leonard August 7, 2006

  • Cold as ice

    A broken engagement -- and a broken heart -- sent Tom Zoellner on a wild journey to understand the endless allure of the diamond.
    By Ben Cosgrove July 19, 2006

  • Computers of the world, unite

    The Swiss Tropical Institute needs you to fight malaria
    By Andrew Leonard July 18, 2006

  • Blame the natives

    Former World Bank official Robert Calderisi throws p.c. rhetoric to the wind in his new book "The Trouble With Africa."
    By G. Pascal Zachary July 5, 2006

  • Ask the pilot

    Isn't there something wrong with the fact that entire regions of the world go unserved by U.S. airlines?
    By Patrick Smith June 30, 2006

  • Destination: Togo

    The wild character of this tiny West African nation is captured in a brilliant roman à clef, a wrenching Peace Corps memoir and a fascinating guide to voodoo.
    By Matt Steinglass June 15, 2006

  • "Whiteman"

    This seductive debut from a former Peace Corps worker transcends the "earnest young man" novel and announces the arrival of a master storyteller.
    By Laura Miller May 16, 2006

  • Empowering women against AIDS

    Microbicides let women protect themselves from getting infected by men who protest condoms, play around.
    By Sarah Elizabeth Richards May 8, 2006

  • The woes of Kilimanjaro

    The fabled glaciers on Tanzania's majestic mountain will soon be gone. Its forests are disappearing, too. For local farmers, this could mean disaster. For the rest of us, it's another unbearable loss on an overheating planet.
    By Kate Cheney Davidson April 28, 2006

  • Wole Soyinka: Exit, pursued by a bear

    The Nigerian Nobel laureate's weird memoir recalls a life of protest, exile -- and farcical political interventions.
    By Matt Steinglass April 20, 2006

  • Biosafety breakdown

    A game Africa can't play: Name that GMO.
    By Andrew Leonard March 22, 2006

  • The new African queen: China

    China props up dictators and blocks sanctions in Africa. Is there a good side?
    By Andrew Leonard March 22, 2006

  • Big Pharma to Africa's aid? Really?

    Roche says it will help poor countries make cheap drugs, no questions asked. Why?
    By Andrew Leonard January 20, 2006

  • A problem from hell

    Does applying the generic label of "genocide" to violence in Darfur make it even harder to stop the killing?
    By G. Pascal Zachary January 19, 2006

  • Adolescent marriages in Africa

    A New York Times story about pubescent daughters forced to marry by their fathers.
    By Rebecca Traister November 28, 2005

  • Infertility, and fertility, put Tanzanian women at risk

    Study finds women with one to four kids are safest from abuse.
    By Lynn Harris November 23, 2005

  • Lost in America

    It was supposed to be a storybook tale of young refugees triumphing against all odds. But an alarming number of Sudan's "Lost Boys" have spiraled into alcohol abuse, crime and even fratricide. What went wrong?
    By Leigh Flayton August 25, 2005

  • Is aid the problem, not the solution?

    Well-meaning activists like Bono have pressured the West into giving billions more to Africa. But is all that money doing more harm than good?
    By Erich Wiedemann and Thilo Thielke July 6, 2005

  • An "African success story" gone sour

    Donors who poured billions into Uganda have hyped its progress, but President Museveni has proven to be just another corrupt despot. Will Bush support democracy -- or stand by an ally?
    By Blake Lambert July 6, 2005

  • Getting real on Africa

    If President Bush is serious about fighting African poverty, here are 10 things he should do.
    By Suzanne Nossel July 6, 2005

  • An epidemic failure

    President Bush claims he is leading the world in the fight against global AIDS. But he has been inexplicably stingy and slow to act -- and by placing religion over science, he's responsible for the loss of untold numbers of lives.
    By Geraldine Sealey June 2, 2005
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