Notes from William Horsley, CJA member, to mark World Press Freedom Day 2013
Focus on Pakistan and a role for the Commonwealth in upholding press freedom? 
The UN-coordinated efforts to protect journalists in Pakistan and other high-risk …

Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes our World, by David McKnight (Pluto Press)
Review by BBC News Correspondent, Nick Higham
To his admirers (mostly on the right) Rupert Murdoch is the man who …

Terence Ranger‏‏
Reviewed by Trevor  Grundy,

CJA member
Professor Terence Ranger needs no  introduction to students of Africa, or to those who helped turn white-ruled  southern Rhodesia into  black-governed Zimbabwe in April 1980. This Oxford University academic …

CJA President Emeritus Derek Ingram shares these memories of Chinua Achebe

I got to know Chinua when we persuaded him to become a governor of the foundation that owned Gemini News Service.
He was a wonderful man …

CJA-UK member, Justin Wintle, recently joined a cruise where he was a invited to give a series of talks on Burma. I thought his blog might be of interest to our members. – Rita
By Justin Wintle
At somewhat  …

Launch of a book by CJA member, Vijay Mehta
 
The Economics of Killing:
How the West Fuels War and Poverty in the Developing World
Globalisation has created an interconnected world, but has not diminished violence, militarism and inequality. …

 
 
 
 
 
 
(Picture: Trevor Grundy)
 
 
By Trevor Grundy
Gambia could become “an absolute model democracy within West Africa” if it conducted all aspects of its democracy in the same way that its 2011 presidential election was run, according to …

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
By Trevor Grundy
The fact that almost all the polls got the result of Zambia’s recent election wrong is an indication that a huge gap exists between the middle class – who tell …

Fifty years after Tanganyika’s Independence in December 1961..

by Trevor Grundy

As millions of Tanzanians celebrate 50 years of their mainland’s independence from Britain this month (9 December) Roman Catholic …

By Bridget Robinson
Photo Clive Vella
A corridor of garish roulette wheels is probably not what you are expecting to be met with on arrival in Malta, but huge posters advertising casinos are exactly what will greet …