“Our conversation was all about ‘Who do you know? Who did what?’” recalls the writer, who was born in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and Sierra Leonean father. “That’s the case of Sierra Leone – we all ...

You need to check out these great book recommendations from Aminatta Forna and Taiye Selasi. Aminatta Forna and Taiye Selasi reveal best books 2016 Are you travelling for summer? Got 2 weeks leave ...

Aminatta Forna has been hailed as a great new African voice ever since her debut memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water (2003) which traced her politician father's execution in Sierra Leone, right ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The parents of Aminatta Fornamet in Aberdeen in the late 1950s. Her mother was a 19-year-old ...

Here's a story, 35 years old old, which remains as relevant for the Africa Commission reporting later this week as it was then. In 1970, the finance minister of an obscure African nation resigned his ...