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African Regime Gone Bad: The Result

28th June 2023 Going Postal 2379 Comments

Rwanda’s “story” had the international community so thoroughly by the emotional and intellectual throat, it could not now, wrest free. Some elements of the stranglehold were self-serving. Rwanda’s most prize 21st-century export was not coffee [more…]

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African Regime Gone Bad, Part Eleven

21st June 2023 Going Postal 3037 Comments

Having humiliated the Ugandan Army (UPDF), the RPF and the RCD in December crushed the remnants of the Congolese army and its Zimbabwean allies in Pweto, southeastern Congo. On 16th January 2001, Kabila was sitting [more…]

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Africa Regime Gone Bad, Pilato Climbs the Ladder

14th June 2023 Going Postal 2762 Comments

In March 1997, in his usual dubious and manipulative way, Kagame “assumed” the chairmanship of the RPF (the ruling party) from Colonel Alexis Kanyarengwe. After protesting army massacres of Hutus in his home province of [more…]

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Slow Boats To Africa, Part Two

12th June 2023 Going Postal 2513 Comments

In Part One we followed the journey of Irishman Charles Freeman, on the SS Medic down the west coast of Africa, from Liverpool to Cape Town in 1927. The ship was continuing on to Australia, [more…]

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African Regime Gone Bad, Zaire Invasion

7th June 2023 Going Postal 2476 Comments

If “keep us safe” was the RPF’s public driving mantra, it was easier said than done. Having taken a generation for Uganda refugee camps to produce a rebel force capable of threatening Rwanda’s national security, [more…]

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Slow Boats To Africa

30th May 2023 Going Postal 2379 Comments

Previously, in “The Sore Seated Safari”, we followed one Charles Henry Freeman and some compatriots, on a 1929 road trip from the town of Iringa, in Tanganyika, to Nairobi in Kenya. But what were they [more…]

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The Sore Seated Safari, Part Two

14th April 2023 Going Postal 2757 Comments

We left our travellers on the evening of September 25th, 1929, as they settled down for a night’s sleep in the village of Bereku, Tanganyika, about 37 miles north of Kondoa Irangi. Today it boasts [more…]

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The Sore Seated Safari

6th April 2023 Going Postal 2587 Comments

In the cupboard to the left of my desk, sits a large cardboard box filled with old family photo albums. These arrived in my parent’s house in the early 1980s, after the death of my [more…]

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Buried Treasure

17th January 2023 Always Worth Saying 2828 Comments

Amongst a century of detritus at the BBC there lies some buried treasure. Between layers of fake news, preachy left-wing documentaries and un-funny comedy, the BBC’s iPlayer hides a gleaming gem of an old archaeology [more…]

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