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Staff Writer's Articles in African Insights

Using culture as a fig leaf
For weeks, fathers and mothers in South Africa switched their televisions off, did not buy newspapers in sight of their young children, or mumbled into their dinner when the news came on. You’ll recall that South Africa’s former Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, was in the dock, accused of raping a relatively youthful family friend.
The Maasai's century-old grievance
Maasai tribes in Kenya's district of Laikipia are demanding the return of their ancestral territory - 100 years after being driven from the land by British colonialists in 1904.
Rwanda: How the genocide happened - Some 800,000 Rwandans were killed in three months
Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. Most of the dead were Tutsis - and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. Even for a country with such a turbulent history as Rwanda, the scale and speed of the slaughter left its people reeling.
Battle for return of stolen African art
Many years ago, thousands of priceless craft were looted and shipped overseas. A few are back now, on a short loan from Britain. They have a strange cheer around them ... but they will be spirited away again to cold and alien cages.