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About Nicholas Walton
NBN Episodes hosted by Nicholas:
December 5, 2014
Reporting the EU
How those within the Brussels Beltway in the EU institutions must pine for the simple days of the past. Not only was the European project in itself fa…
November 19, 2014
Fortress Europe
From London to Rome, Paris to Stockholm, there is no other contemporary issue that can move the general public's political needle quite so quickly as …
October 16, 2014
The European Union
Some say it should be a loose collection of sovereign nation states; others say it should aspire to be a kind of super-nation state itself. Or is it, …
June 20, 2014
A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts
July 2011 saw that rarest of events - an attempt to resolve a conflict in Africa by the redrawing of borders. It saw the birth of South Sudan as a ful…
June 28, 2013
The Passage to Europe
At the end of the 20th century, it looked like history was being made. After a century that had seen Europe dissolve into an orgy of bloody conflict n…
November 7, 2012
Who Rules South Africa?
Anybody who has been following the news in recent months knows that bloodshed has returned to South Africa. The recent violence and deaths among strik…
October 16, 2012
Religion and AIDS in Africa
The liberal media in the Western World takes a firm line on how two of the big issues facing Africa intersect - bluntly speaking Africa's high levels …
August 17, 2012
London
Not long ago I had a discussion (prompted, I think, by a poll in The Economist) with my colleague about which city on earth could boast that it was th…
August 17, 2012
Migrants and Strangers in an African City
Every so often a book lands on my desk about something so obviously interesting that I have never really considered it before. Bruce Whitehouse's Migr…
August 11, 2012
Reporting Conflict
One of the hardest jobs in journalism is making sense of conflict. Seeing through the fog of war and through what each side wants you to report is fan…
July 20, 2012
Labyrinth of Kingdoms
Three years ago I travelled overland with my wife from Victoria Falls through Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. It felt like we were on a real …
July 2, 2012
Germany 1945
One chilling statistic relating to 1945 is that more German soldiers died in that January than in any other month of the war: 450,000. It was not just…
May 29, 2012
Getting Somalia Wrong
Several months ago I interviewed Steve Bloomfield, the author of a book on African football, for New Books in African studies. As usual, I ended the i…
April 27, 2012
Chocolate Nations
When was the last time you ate some chocolate? If you live in the developed world there's a strong chance that you've been munching on some fairly rec…
April 2, 2012
Catastrophe
Much of the literature on modern Africa makes the unhappy comparison between hopes, especially upon independence, and reality. In Zimbabwe that link r…
April 2, 2012
Keeping Up With the Germans
Few people are in a better position to assess different countries and cultures than those caught between them. So it is with Philip Oltermann: a Germa…
March 29, 2012
Up Pohnpei
Coming to terms with the limitations of our own sporting achievement is one of the hardest things many of us have to do in life. A couple of years ago…
March 22, 2012
Britain's War Machine
My grandfather joined up when the Second World War broke out, but he was soon returned to civvy street as he was much more valuable employing his mech…
February 21, 2012
Blue Water Empire
I have always found something distinctly 'un-British' about the Mediterranean. I grew up thinking of the British empire - and British spirit - as bein…
January 24, 2012
Germania
When I was fourteen I was faced with a difficult choice. I was dreadful at languages but knew that I had another two years of brain-aching pain ahead …
December 2, 2011
Belarus
A couple of weeks ago I took a bus from Warsaw and travelled east across the River Bug. The border took a long time to cross, but then this was no ord…
October 25, 2011
Travels in Blood and Honey
The hardest part of living in a foreign land is crossing that invisible divide between being an outsider and getting to know a country properly. An ol…
September 9, 2011
The Last Storytellers
Few places can match the Djemaa el Fna in Marrakech for spectacle. As the shadows lengthen and dusk approaches, the square seethes with snake charmers…
August 23, 2011
Africa United
A couple of days ago I had an unusual experience. I was staying in a hotel in Kampala, with a stunning view of the southern reaches of the Ugandan cap…