Surviving the Heart of Darkness: A Consul’s Tale
Surviving the Heart of Darkness: A Consul’s Tale Review by Michael W. Cotter Captive in the Congo: A Consul’s Return to the Heart of Darkness. By Michael P. E. Hoyt. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 275. $29.95 … Read more
Acting Alone? Fidel’s African Imperial Adventures
Acting Alone? Fidel’s African Imperiadventures Review by Margaret Hemenway Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976. By Piero Gleijeses. (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 552. $34.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.) Piero Gleijeses’ Conflicting Missions attempts … Read more
The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project
Prospects and Problems
by Donald R. Noland
The United States and Africa
Is the United States once again “rediscovering” Africa? What has our approach been and what should it be now? The author, a former Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs, reviews the past and charts a course for the future. … Read more
Letter from Niger May 2003
The Winds of War Blow By It would be overstating the case to say that the Iraq War turned out to be a non-event in Niger…but not by much. In the months leading up to the war, many of us … Read more
A Witch of a Cook
The author recounts an unusual household problem encountered at one of her posts. Or perhaps it was not so terribly unusual for Foreign Service families living year after year abroad in various countries. Certainly she and her husband solved the … Read more
Letter from Niger: November 2002
by J.R. Bullington
Letter From Niger: June 2002
by J.R. Bullington
List of Chiefs of Mission as of April 15, 2002
AFSA
Into Africa
by Lucian Heichler
Serving in Zaire, 1982-86: A Report
by Arthur S. Lezin
Mission to Mozambique
by Alfonso Arenales The author was a career U. S. diplomat from 1957 to 1988. In addition to senior assignments in Washington, DC, and on the U. S. delegation to the UN in New York, he held positions abroad in … Read more
Service at Embassy Amman, 1970
EXTRACT FROM ORAL HISTORY OF AMBASSADOR HUME HORAN
The Changing Definition of Sovereignty
by Edward Marks
September 2001 Letter from Niger
by J.R. Bullington
Does Africa Exist?
by Michael Radu
J. R. Bullington on the Niger River, AIDS, and volunteer marriage
by J. R. Bullington Storks and rains The annual rains, along with the migratory storks that always accompany them, arrived early this year,promising relief from food shortages and threatened famine. Substantial expanses of greenery now mark the orange-brown landscape; dry … Read more
Stories Out of Africa!
Review by Edward Marks
Africa, Africa!: Fifteen Stories
By Frederic Hunter. (Seattle: Cune Press, 2000. $23.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.)