Dizzy worms in Zimbabwe
19 March 2007
Take all predictions about the end of Robert Mugabe's regime with a pinch of salt. No one has a clue as to how the man will go; or when; or who will succeed him. Indeed, I doubt that President Mugabe himself can provide the answers to these questions
The Commonwealth: punching below weight
3 December 2007
We punch above our weight, claimed Commonwealth leaders who held their biennial heads-of-government summit (CHOGM) in the Ugandan capital Kampala on 23-25 November 2007. Who did they think they were fooling?
African legacies: settler-colonialism, land-politics
11 December 2007
When Robert Mugabe complained at the European Union-Africa summit in Lisbon on 8-9 December 2007 about the "arrogance" of Europe's leaders he was on the right track. Add "hypocrisy" and "ignorance" to arrogance, and he hits the target.
Debt and Africa's poor: the World Bank relents
1 September 1995
Michael Holman reports on a 180-degree policy shift on how to cope with the continent's $160bn debt mountin.
Empire's angry offspring
9 March 2002
Michael Holman, who first met Robert Mugabe 30 years ago, traces the personal and political history that turned the warrior for Zimbabwean liberation into today's bitter president.