Ian Porter traces the steps of this Canadian imperialist abroad. In 1958, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe published one of the first African novels to become an international bestseller in English. His work tells the story of the colonial experience from the perspective of the colonized. Certain events contain within them the past and the future. In a turning, the past dies and the future is born.
Centuries change like that.
The 19th century shifted into the 20th with the performance of The Rite of Spring on May 29, 1913. Patrick Friesen explores this seminal moment. Wade Davis is both a modern scientist and an old-fashioned explorer. Indigenous peoples, he believes, have many lessons to teach about the riches of both the material and the spirit worlds. Philip Coulter talks with him.