ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS ON AFRICA: NON-FICTION
“I’ll Teach You to Build the School,” Front Porch Review, April, 2012, link to text
“Loopholes in the 4-Step Ghanaian Budgetary Process,” Pambazuka News, Issue 578:
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“The African Regent Hotel: Culture and Corruption in West Africa,” opendemocracy. net:link to text
“Sunday Afternoon at the National Museum of Ghana,” Marco Polo Arts Magazine,link to text
“Nigeria, The Way Forward,” Pambazuka News, link to text; Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, Winter 2011, Vol 16, No 2.
“Up from the Free State: Puleng Motosoeng and Ntataise, openDemocracy, 19 October, 2011. link to text
“The Second Act of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower: A Conversation with John Githongo,” Pambazuka News, September, 2011. link to text
“Who Cares about Ethiopian Democracy?” opendemocracy.net, September, 2011. link to text (Amharic translation, Awramba Times, October 2011)
“How Free is the Free Press in Kenya?” opendemocracy, August 19, 2011 (front-page selection). link to text
“Walking the Line: Excerpts from an Interview with Amare Aregawi in Addis Ababa, February 7th, 2011,” The Faster Times, July 26, 2011.
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“From the middle distance: Ethiopian journalist in exile,” Pambazuka News, 2011-07-21, Issue #540, July 21, 2011. link to text (Note: “Pambazuka” is the Swahili word for “awaken,” or “dawn.”)
“How Free is the Free Press? An Interview with Chaacha Mwita,” Pambazuka News, #539, Thursday, July 14, 2011. link to text
“Excerpts from an Interview with Dawit Kebede: Press Freedom, Ethiopian Law, and the U.S. as Champion of Democracy,” Pambazuka News, Issue #536, June 23, 2011. link to text
“Reporting Sudan: Domestic repression and distance in exile (with Muhammed Osman),” Pambazuka News, Issue 532, June 1, 2011. link to text
“Journalist in a Paper Democracy: Excerpts from an Interview with Eskinder Nega (two parts),” Pambazuka News, Issue 530, May 12, 2011.
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“Dispatches from East Africa and the Horn, #1-5,” The Faster Times, Feb-Mar 2011: link to text
–An Ethiopian Holiday Celebration: St. Kirkos Day, Addis Ababa.
–Noisy City, Noisy World (Addis Ababa)
–Well-Met at the Kolping Conference Center, Nairobi, Kenya (excerpts from a journal, Part One)
–Well-Met at the Kolping Conference Center, Nairobi, Kenya (excerpts from a journal, Part Two)
“Nobody’s Fault,” nth position, July 10, 2010, link to text
“A Visit to Westcliff Flats,” Evergreen Review, June 10, 2010. link to text
(This article was reprinted in Patrick Bond’s daily email update, Centre for Civil Society, University of Kwa Zulu-Natal, 18 June, 2010.)
“Show Me the Money: The South-African Economic Debate about the World Cup,” Op-Ed published in Patrick Bond’s daily email update, Centre for Civil Society, University of Kwa Zulu-Natal, 18 June, 2010.
“Dispatches from Southern Africa: #’s 1,2, & 3,” The Faster Times, Feb-March, 2010. link to text
“An Interview with Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s Corruption Fighter,” The Faster Times, Feb. 24, 2010. link to text
Between February 18 and April 11, 2010, RS’s weekly posts from South Africa and Botswana are appearing in The Faster Times, link to text
“Conversations with a Continent (11), 2007-2009,” nth position, February 2010, link to text
“Politics and the Press in Ethiopia: An Interview with Journalist Abiye Teklemariam,” The Faster Times, Dec. 15, 2009 link to text
“Culture wars/war cultures: review of Amadi’s The Great Ponds and Paul G. Zolbrod’s Battle Songs,” nth position, June, 2008. link to text
“Sabo: The Ibadan Sabon Gari, 1960-1999,” nth position, March, 2008. link to text
Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, Spring, 2008. link to text
Memoir: “A King’s Progress,” nth position, August 2007. link to text
“O Ti Lo Wa Ju (You Have Gone Past All): The Caine Prize for African Writing,” The Georgia Review, Summer 2007. link to publication
Interview: “Nigerian Futures: Interview with Wole Soyinka,” opendemocracy , 8/25/06. link to text
Interview: Chris Abani. “Direct Quotes,” Poets & Writers (online), 6/1/06. link to text
“The state of Nigerian democracy,” opendemocracy, 1/13/06. link to text
“Nigeria’s Political Prospects (2 parts),” Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, Spring & Fall 2005. link to text
“Oil: Nigeria’s Slippery Politics,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jan-Feb 2005. link to text
Review: A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope for Africa, by Howard W. French,American Book Review, 2005.* link to publication
(*ABR has received the ALA Louis Shores-Greenwood Publishing Group award for excellence in book reviewing.)
“(Re)Introducing Elechi Amadi,” (2 parts) and (review) “Where Gods and Mortals Meet” (Urhobo art show at Museum for African Art), Friends of Nigeria Newsletter,2004. link to text
Review: GraceLand, by Chris Abani, American Book Review, 2004. link to publication
“The ‘Obnoxious’ Threat to Nigeria and Its Oil,” Wall Street Journal, 4/15/03. link to publication
Review: Norman Rush’s Mortals, Worldview, Summer 2003. link to publication
Review: “Material Differences,” Museum for African Art, Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, 2003. link to text
“Democracy at the Crossroads: The Nigerian Elections of 2002-03 (4 parts),” Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, 2002-03. link to text
“The Acceptable Face of Capitalism: John Holt & Co,” African Link, 2002 (reprinted in Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, 2007). link to text
“An Interview with Norman Rush,” Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, 2002. link to text
“Talking (Again) with Norman Rush,” Returned Peace Corps Writers and Readers (online), 2002. link to text
“Lumumba,” by Raoul Peck, Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, 2001. link to text
Reviews & interviews from Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, 1997-2000:* link to text
–“NYC Offers African Art Feast” (review).
– “Champion of Democracy: An Interview with Chief Anthony Enahoro” (reprinted in African Link).
–”The Human Face of Torture: A Review of the Fourth New York African Film Festival at Lincoln Center.”
–“Fifth New York African Film Festival at Lincoln Center.”
–”Baule: African Art/Western Eyes.”
–”Two New Shows,” and “A Book Party for Another Africa: three events at the Museum for African Art.”
–“Highlights from an RPCV Writers and Readers interview with Jonathan Kwitny.
(*In 2001, Friends of Nigeria Newsletter was voted “Best country-of-origin newsletter for both
content and design” by the National Peace Corps Association.)
OTHER NON-FICTION.
Scholarly:
“A Transformational-Generative Analysis of a Famous Line from Milton,” Leadings, the Friends Seminary Bicentennial Journal, 1986.
Introduction:
William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (Bantam Books, 1997; reissued 2006).