African Voices catch up with Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, Africa’s man of letters. A contender for the title of Africa’s most widely read novelist, his first work "Things Fall Apart" has been translated into 40 languages
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Scrutiny in horse deaths falls on vitamins
The captain of a polo team at the center of the mysterious deaths of 21 horses told an Argentine newspaper that he has "no doubts" vitamins administered to the animals by a laboratory are at fault.
Palestinian filmmakers beat the odds to hit silver screen
When the 10th London Palestine Film Festival opens this week, Londoners will have greater access to films made in the Palestinian territories than many people living in the region. Today, there is only one movie theater operating in the West Bank. Gaza has none.
‘Earth’ takes viewers on ‘breathtaking’ global journey
A polar bear falls through thin Arctic ice while searching for food for his family. A humpback whale guides her calf on a perilous 4,000-mile journey. A herd of African elephants in search of water battles a sandstorm in the Kalahari Desert.
The Hobbit: Out of Africa
A very small human ancestor made a very big splash back in 2004, when researchers discovered the remains of Homo floresiensis, a 3-ft., prehuman “hobbit,” in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores.
Why New York Is No Place to Try Somali Pirates
The reason Abdulwali Muse will stand trial in New York’s Southern District Court, we are told, is that the court has a lot of experience in trying those who have attacked U.S.
Judge: Piracy suspect can be tried as an adult
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a suspected pirate will be tried as an adult.
Women in Somali city must cover up or go to jail
Women in Somalia’s third-largest city, Baidoa, have been ordered to wear Islamic dress starting this week or face jail time, according to a resident and Somali media reports. The order — issued last week by Al-Shabaab, the radical Islamist militia that controls the city — also warns business owners to close their shops during daily prayers, or they will be temporarily shut down, a local journalist said.
Spotting Distant Worlds from the Backyard
It was arguably the biggest news in science this month: A graduate student in Australia discovered the continent of Africa. What makes Sally Langford’s discovery so remarkable — and worthy of reporting in the journal Astrobiology on April 6 — is not what she saw, but how she saw it. Once a month over the course of three years, Langford stood huddled against the evening chill in lonely Australian farmland and watched as the east coast of Africa shone in the midday sun
How Somalia’s Fishermen Became Pirates
Amid the current media frenzy about Somali pirates, it’s hard not to imagine them as characters in some dystopian Horn of Africa version of Waterworld. We see wily corsairs in ragged clothing swarming out of their elusive mother ships, chewing narcotic khat while thumbing GPS phones and grappling hooks.