bout de papier, Volume 26, Issue No. 3, 2012
bout de papier, Volume 7, Issue No. 3, 1990
bout de papier, Volume 5, Issue No. 1, 1987
The Vote from Here to Timbuktu
It’s likely that I learned parliamentary elections would be held in Mali the same way most Malians did, through a text message inviting me to find out what my polling station was. The first message came a week or two before the…
L’Afrique noire est mal partie. Cinquante ans déjà.
En collaboration avec la Fondation René Dumont, les Éditions du Seuil viennent de lancer une réédition de L’Afrique noire est mal partie, 50 ans tout juste après sa première parution et 11 ans après la mort de son auteur.
African Light and Shadow
Editor’s Note: Poetry is often deeply personal and it helps to know something of the poet before you explore a poet’s world. What bout learned: Evelyn Voigt managed programmes and projects with the Canadian International Development Agency in East Africa, the Horn,…
Dar Es Salaam 1963
DAR ES SALAAM 1963 by Tom Torrance, General Store Publishing House, 2010, $19.95
Constitution-Building in Namibia: Could it Happen Here?
“In the process of negotiating, bargaining and hammering out this constitution, the Namibians developed a special Namibian way of resolving internal differences and contradictions. The method is:
Sonnet 435
bout de papier, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1990), p. 39 by Sam Hanson A dry and dusty, bright and sunburnt landLast year was host to the United Nations.They’d come, they said, to take the place in hand:In freedom’s cause, with numbrous delegations.Others briefly came, and then complained:“The BOERS keep these simple folk in thrall!”The PEOPLE, […]
Life Abroad
bout de papier, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1989), p. 33 “Who are you?” he screamedthrusting the rifle into my face.I had often imaginedjust such an occasion.“Stand aside my man” I would saycooly brushing dust from my immaculate lapels“Canadian High Commission;”and of coursehe would stand aside, humbly muttering an apology.Instead I heard a small voice sayvery […]
