Published in The Spectator, 19 March 2026
Reviewing Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire by Simukai Chigudu
Published in The Times, 11 August 2025
Reviewing A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda by Derek R. Peterson
Published in The Spectator, 22 March 2025
Reviewing The Convoy by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Published in FT.com, 6 February 2025
Reviewing Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina
Published in The Spectator, 30 January 2025
Reviewing Chasing Shadows by Ronald J. Deibert
Published in The Spectator, 23 January 2025
Reviewing Motherland by Luke Pepera
Published in The Spectator, 9 March 2024
Reviewing The Rebel’s Clinic by Adam Shatz
Published in The Atlantic, 23 October 2023
Reviewing The Lumumba Plot by Stuart A. Reid
Published in The Spectator, 26 August 2023
Reviewing The Exiled by Lucy Fulford
Published in The Times, 12 May 2023
Reviewing Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
Published in The Spectator, 17 December 2022
Reviewing To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré by Reed Brody
Published in New York Times, 31 August 2022
Reviewing Africa Is Not a Country by Dipo Faloyin
Published in New York Times, 12 October 2021
Reviewing Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds by Mondiant Dogon
Published in The Times, 8 May 2021
Reviewing The Four Horsemen by Emily Mayhew
Published in The Times, 13 November 2020
Reviewing Idi Amin: The Story of Africa’s Icon of Evil by Mark Leopold
Published in African Arguments, 3 July 2019
Reviewing Combatants by William Pike
Published in The American Scholar, 5 March 2017
Reviewing In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement by John Heminway
Published in The Spectator, 17 February 2017
Reviewing The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam
Published in The American Scholar, 4 December 2017
Reviewing The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff
Published in New York Times, 13 October 2016
Reviewing Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Published in The Spectator, 30 October 2015
Reviewing The King of Kings and I by Asfa-Wossen Asserate
Published in The Spectator, 8 August 2015
Reviewing The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu
Published in The Independent, 30 July 2015
Reviewing the Rumpole series by John Mortimer
Published in New York Times, 20 March 2015
Reviewing The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis
Published in The Spectator, 24 January 2015
Reviewing A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg
Published in The Spectator, 29 March 2014
Reviewing Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck
Published in The Spectator, 15 February 2014
Reviewing Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg by Mark Gevisser
Published in The Spectator, 9 February 2013
Reviewing The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Other Stories of Africa by Rian Malan
Published in The Spectator, 29 September 2012
Reviewing Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life by Artur Domosławski
Published in The Spectator, 1 September 2012
Reviewing My First Coup d’État, and Other True Stories from the Lost Decades in Africa by John Dramani Mahama
Published in The Spectator, 3 December 2011
Reviewing Looking for Transwonderland by Noo Saro-Wiwa
Published in The Spectator, 29 October 2011
Reviewing Who Killed Hammarskjöld? by Susan Williams
Published in The Spectator, 9 July 2011
Reviewing The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father by Sally H. Jacobs
Published in The Spectator, 7 May 2011
Reviewing Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason K. Stearns
Published in The Spectator, 5 May 2010
Reviewing The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Published in The Spectator, 24 March 2010
Reviewing Dreams in a Time of War by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Published in The Spectator, 13 January 2010
Reviewing The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe
Published in Washington Post, 16 August 2009
Reviewing China Safari by Serge Michel and Michel Beuret
Published in The Spectator, 15 July 2009
Reviewing The Worst Date Ever by Jane Bussmann
Published in The Spectator, 11 February 2009
Reviewing Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo
Published in Financial Times, 22 March 2007
Reviewing Chief of Station, Congo by Lawrence Devlin
Published in Financial Times, 23 February 2007
Reviewing Unbowed: One Woman’s Story by Wangari Maathai
