5 DECEMBER 1987, page 11

B Ow-tie Culture

Sousa Jamba argues that Africans are drawn to imitate the West in externals THE debating society of my Zambian school once debated the motion, 'The coming of the white man to......

The Hostage Market

Charles Glass on how France is beating the kidnappers at their own game — at the moment WHEN the Lebanese civil war began in 1975, one of its curious features was the regular......