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‘Twenty-five years after his death, His Imperial Majesty, King of Kings, Elect of God, Defender of the Faith,was finally being laid to rest, though they still could not be certain how he met his end.’
John Ryle attends the funeral of Haile Sellasie.
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‘She must have loved gold seeing that everything in the penthouse was gold. We didn’t sit. Fear didn’t let us see where to sit.’ A story by Adachioma Ezeano.
‘I had also, a week earlier, been fired for trying to sleep with my boss’s husband. I got the idea from a book, or maybe every book.’ A story by Emily Adrian.
‘The Mitsubishi conglomerate controls a forty per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna; they are freezing and hoarding huge stocks of the fish every year.’ Katherine Rundell on extinction speculation.
‘Two roof tiles are missing to the rear: the kiss of death. Without repair, ruination is now inevitable. Until then, this is my best hope of shelter.’ Cal Flyn visits the island of Swona in northern Scotland.
‘I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures. / For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’ A poem by Ocean Vuong.
John Ryle is a British writer and anthropologist, working for aid agencies and human rights organizations in Africa and the Middle East. He is a former contributing editor to Granta.
More about the author →‘They show people denied access to markets that they enjoyed before the war, people impoverished by the fight to preserve their culture and to assert control of their territory.’
‘This is worth remembering: if it were not for Africa we would not be here at all.’
‘The beat of the city was shot through with drumming patterns used to invoke them in the Saturday night ceremonies.’
‘Bor is a long way from Khartoum – more than 700 miles. There were other hostile groups on the way and precious little food.’
‘Here one minute, gone the next.’
An extract from Owlish by Dorothy Tse, translated by Natascha Bruce.
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