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When I met Orwell

  COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | I was fifteen when my father, in a fashion typical of him, bought my brothers and me a book with an oddly unsettling title: 1984. Except for my brother Peter, it lay untouched on our bookshelf for nearly two and a half months — …

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The long echo of Radio Africa

. COMMENT | ANDREW BESI | In 1985, the British band Latin Quarter released their haunting anthem Radio Africa. One of its verses rhymes thus: “ Mozambique and Mugabe Still got FRELIMO I hear them say But exchange means Recession means It all means it’s harder to take Tanzania could be …

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