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Philip Hammond
Darfur: the dangers of celebrity imperialism
Sending Blackwater to Sudan? The eccentric war-hungry activists of the Save Darfur lobby have taken leave of their senses.
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| Monday 3 November 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Congo: pornography for misanthropes
Holocaust-hunters and rape-trawlers have besieged the Congo, where they ‘eat dead babies’, in search of the germ of human evil.
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| Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
Barrie Collins
Rwanda: obscuring the truth about the genocide
Far from being radical, the attacks on France for its role in the 1994 war are designed to whitewash Western intervention more broadly.
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| Thursday 17 July 2008 |
Tara McCormack
Sudan: an indictment of liberal intervention
Prosecuting President Omar al-Bashir for genocide might make Westerners feel good, but it will only exacerbate the conflict in Darfur.
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| Wednesday 25 June 2008 |
Mick Hume
Zimbabwe: whose crisis is it anyway?
There can be no democratic solution until the struggle to oust Mugabe is separated from the moral posturing of the international community.
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| Monday 23 June 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Disenfranchising the people of Zimbabwe
Morgan Tsvangirai’s withdrawal from the presidential run-off is understandable – but it exposes the undemocratic dynamic to Western interference.
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| Tuesday 22 April 2008 |
Christopher Bickerton
Using Mugabe as a stick to beat Africa
Western observers are using Robert Mugabe’s refusal to stand down as an excuse to lambast the disobedient, failing nations of southern Africa.
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| Thursday 10 April 2008 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Africa and the White Madonna’s Burden
In adopting black babies and trying to ‘mother’ entire countries, have celebs created an image of Africa as a helpless, feckless child?
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| Thursday 3 April 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Zimbabwe and the new Cowardly Colonialism
Western intervention against Robert Mugabe’s ‘evil regime’ put Zimbabwe into an economic straitjacket and disempowered its people.
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| Tuesday 1 April 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
I scream for Darfur /
Ice-cream for Darfur
From ‘Cookies and Scream’ to ‘Honeycaust’, an ice-cream company is looking for a tasty new flavour to raise awareness about genocide.
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| Thursday 21 February 2008 |
Stuart Simpson
Will China and India conquer the world?
Essay: We should celebrate the spread of wealth and modernity in the developing world, while recognising that a great shift in global power is not imminent.
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| Thursday 10 January 2008 |
Julie Hearn
Kenya and the myth of ‘African barbarism’
Observers describe the post-election violence as a virus. In truth, everyday Kenyans have historically resisted the top-down process of ethnic
one-upmanship.
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| Tuesday 8 January 2008 |
Frank Furedi
Kenya is not the new Rwanda
Why Western observers see every political conflict in Africa as an inexplicable outburst of violence and a harbinger of ‘holocaust’.
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| Tuesday 4 December 2007 |
Rob Harris
Let's ditch this 'nostalgia for mud'
While subsistence life is hopelessly romanticised in the West, it is the city that has become a symbol of hope for millions of Ghanaians.
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| Tuesday 4 December 2007 |
Stuart Simpson
There's no new 'scramble for Africa'
China’s relationship with Africa is no threat to the West - all the major economies are gaining from a continent that is no longer a ‘basket case’.
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| Wednesday 7 November 2007 |
Chris Bickerton
Zoe’s ark: the dangers of ‘DIY humanitarianism’
The 'kidnap' scandal involving a French charity in Chad is a product of the reckless self-righteousness of humanitarian interventionism.
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| Thursday 18 October 2007 |
Ceri Dingle
That's enough 'Corruptababble'
The director of a new film about Africa explodes the myth that the continent is sick with corruption and needs the West to cure it.
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| Tuesday 18 September 2007 |
David Chandler
France is now more gung-ho than America
As he threatens war on Iran, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner is living up to spiked’s warning that he is ‘the most dangerous man in Europe’.
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| Friday 14 September 2007 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Towards an age of abundance
Why we must tackle the critics of economic growth, and finish off the war against scarcity.
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| Wednesday 29 August 2007 |
De Roy Kwesi Andrew
You hate being affluent? Then swap with us
A Ghanaian filmmaker who toured the UK with a documentary on debt relief was shocked to find so many Britons down on development.
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