The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Mark Jacobson
It was once a crown jewel of African beauty—a place blessed with so many rivers, so much pristine coastline, and such teeming, verdant savannas that it made God jealous…
by Scott Johnson
How the tapping of Angola’s natural resources has kept the country a killing field, and made it one of the world’s most glaringly inefficient kleptocracies.
By Abigail Tucker
The world’s foremost lion expert reveals the brutal, secret world of the king of beasts.
by Rian Malan
How American music legends made millions from the work of a Zulu tribesman who died a pauper.
by Tim Cahill
It had been said that no outsider would ever see the legendary salt mines of Mali and live to describe them; ever slip into the Caravan of White Gold, evade the slaughtering bandits, suffer the killing storms, and lay eyes upon the nightmarish landscape of 1,000 pits gouged by hand from the Saharan plain…
by Tim Cahill
A great wash of humanity carried us onto the corrugated metal deck of the barge, and eventually, engines thrumming, the Flueve Congo moved majestically out into the current and began floating down the Ubangi…
by Sara Corbett
For people living in the poorest places in Africa and beyond the possibilities afforded by cellphones are revolutionary.
by Kevin Fedarko
If you ever find yourself skimming through the troposphere high above the Horn of Africa, the engines of your cargo jet clawing at the currents of sub-Saharan air rolling off the lip of the Ethiopian plateau and down toward the Red Sea, there will come a moment when you’ll have to admit that the cockpit of an aging DC-8 offers a damn fine view of the most wretched place on the planet.
