bout de papier, Volume 26, Issue No. 1, 2011
bout de papier, Volume 17, Issue No. 1, 2000
On Voltaire and Joint Ventures
That famous turn of phrase is attributed to Voltaire. Although it borders on the melodramatic, it captures the spirit of the Enlightenment and is something of a keystone for modern democracy. Perhaps editors in particular need to hold that thought, especially when…
African Chronicles – A Memoir
In the 1960s the Honourable and Reverend Walter McLean was the first field director and senior advisor for CUSO in West Africa, minister of the Presbyterian Church, chaplain to the University of Nigeria, and a peace envoy between the government of Eastern…
Michaelena McLaughlin Remembers
Once in Nigeria we visited a CUSO couple in the small village where they had been teaching for the past two years. We travelled from Lagos in the embassy’s 4-wheel drive vehicle, which seemed to be the only vehicle in sight. Our…
