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  • Vol 50 No 11
  •  29th May 2009

Tajudeen Abdul Raheem

The death of Tajudeen Abdul Raheem in a car crash on the way to Nairobi airport in the early hours of Africa Day, 25 May, deprives the continent of one of its bravest and wittiest spirits. A rousing public speaker and a brilliant polemicist, Tajudeen had ...

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

Alison Des Forges

Alison Des Forges, who died on 12 February 2009 in a plane crash near Buffalo, New York, combined great compassion, dedicated activism and intellectual rigour in her advocacy for human rights in Rwanda. She started work at Human Rights Watch in the early ...

  • Vol 49 No 11
  •  23rd May 2008

James Lemkin

James Anthony Lemkin, who died on 12 May, was one of the founders of Africa Confidential. He set the newsletter up in 1960, along with John Vernon, Charles Janson and Charles March. Lemkin was the most knowledgeable about Africa, said Janson, who was AC's...

  • Vol 47 No 20
  •  6th October 2006

Carole Collins

Carole Collins was a friend of Africa ­ and of Africa Confidential. Journalist, academic, and most strikingly, advocate for peace and justice, she had been deeply involved with Africa since the mid-1980s, when she and her husband and trades union act...

  • Vol 47 No 14
  •  7th July 2006

Charles Janson

Charles Janson, who died on 15 June aged 88, was the founding Editor of Africa Confidential. His early inspiration, flair, integrity and courage established the newsletter as an authoritative source of news and analysis of African affairs. Educated at Et...

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