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Koert Lindijer
Koert Lindijer has been a correspondent in Africa for the Dutch newspaper NRC since 1983. He is the author of four books on African affairs.
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The end of an era. The development worker goes home, what remains of the morality that drove him
Analysis
August 30, 2025
We must safeguard our native seeds
Environment
August 9, 2025
How visual arts in Kenya capture the state of the country
Arts
August 2, 2025
The bookseller in the frontline
Arts
July 19, 2025
Health care collapse looms. Modern diseases on the rise
Interview
June 4, 2025
How Isaias Afwerki brought us into a cycle of conflict and chronic misery
Opinion
May 14, 2025
War in South Sudan gets very ugly once more
Features
May 10, 2025
Part 2 What the visit of the Dutch king to Kenya achieved
Analysis
April 13, 2025
Amadou Bagayoko is dead. He was part of “the blind couple of Bamako”
Arts
April 8, 2025
Part 1 What the king of the Netherlands discussed with Gen-Z
Features
April 1, 2025
Andrée Blouin, a nearly forgotten heroin of the anti colonial struggle
Features
March 29, 2025
Isaias Afwerki failed to liberate himself from the ghosts of the armed struggle
Opinion
March 21, 2025
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