Martin Meredith

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1. Michela Wrong

   Author of In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation (P.S.)

2. Ryszard Kapuściński

   Author of The Shadow of the Sun, The Soccer War, Another Day of Life

3. Thomas Pakenham

   Author of The Scramble for Africa, The Boer War

4. Martin Meredith

   Author of The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence, Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa, Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe

5. Niall Ferguson

   Author of Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

6. Adam Hochschild

   Author of King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

7. John Reader

   Author of Africa: A Biography of the Continent

8. Alistair Horne

   Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, To Lose a Battle: France 1940

9. Misha Glenny

   Author of McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers, The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999

10. Richard Dowden

    Author of Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

11. William Easterly

    Author of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

12. Ahmed Rashid

    Author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Descent into Chaos

13. Roméo Dallaire

    Author of Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

14. Howard W. French

    Author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa

15. Amartya Sen

    Author of Development as Freedom

16. Tim Butcher

    Author of Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

17. Albert Hourani

    Author of A History of the Arab Peoples

18. Jeffrey D. Sachs

    Author of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

19. Paul Collier

    Author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

20. Philip Gourevitch

    Author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda