Obituary

Stephen Ellis, Editor of Africa Confidential from 1986 to 1991, died on 29 July 2015. AC was just one chapter in Stephen’s distinguished career as one of the most prolific and resp...

Richard Ruegg Kershaw, who died aged 80 on 28 April, was one of the most multi-talented editors of Africa Confidential. He went on to work in radio, television and film. Kershaw st...

The death of Aleke Banda was announced on 9 April 2010. Although he was born in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia), was educated in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) and died in South Afri...

Over a hundred of us gathered at the Friends Meeting House in Washington DC on 29 January to pay tribute to David Coetzee, a pioneering spirit in African journalism, who had died t...

We are saddened to announce the death of Justice Austin Amissah, a reader, critic and friend of Africa Confidential.

We are sad to report the death on 14 November of Richard Hall, the publisher of the newsletter Africa Analysis which he founded in 1985. His friendly manner won him many friends ac...

Africa has lost three of its favourite sons this year – Claude Ake, Mohamed Amin and Mohammed Abdul Rahman Babu. Each made his own remarkable contribution to the continent; t...