A life in stained glass: Cameron Duodu looks back on his long years with New African and picks the article he did after 9/11 as a reminder of the lessons the world should learn on the 9th anniversary of that tragedy in September 2001.

New African › Nbr. 2010, January 2010

Author: Duodu, Cameron

Position:: Reminiscence

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A life in stained glass: Cameron Duodu looks back on his long years with New African and picks the article he did after 9/11 as a reminder of the lessons the world should learn on the 9th anniversary of that tragedy in September 2001.

WHEN THE EDITOR ASKED me to go through New African and reflect upon some of the pieces I had written, I found the task well nigh impossible. Journalism is supposed to be "ephemeral". But as I read some of the pieces, I was struck by the fact that without meaning to, I had been sketching out the history of our times, and the stuff, if I may say so, w...

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