Volume 50, Number 6 · April 10, 2003

The Jewel of Africa

By Doris Lessing

'You have the jewel of Africa in your hands,' said President Samora Machel of Mozambique and President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania to Robert Mugabe, at the moment of independence, in 1980. 'Now look after it.'



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