Howard W. French

Howard W. French is an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an occasional columnist for The International Herald Tribune. He spent many years as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, covering Africa, East Asia, and the Americas. He is completing a novel about Africa. His most recent book is A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa.
 (September 2009)

From the Review

December 3, 2009: The Debate over Rwanda (letter)

September 24, 2009: Kagame's Hidden War in the Congo

Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gérard Prunier

The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa by René Lemarchand

The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality by Thomas Turner