Obituaries

Obituary: Vale Pier Luigi Ferrari – The Man and his Legacy

By Alberto & Francesco Ferrari The passing of our father, Pier Luigi Ferrari, President of First Marine Insurance, has been…

1 year ago

Obituary – Wilbur Addison Smith (1933-2021): Lion of African Literature

A charming chauvinist, addicted to adventure, and in his personal life often as ruthless as the characters depicted in his…

2 years ago

Wilbur Addison Smith (1933-2021): Lion of African Literature

A charming chauvinist, addicted to adventure, and in his personal life often as ruthless as the characters depicted in his…

2 years ago

Obituary: Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

The word battle used in connection with any ailment is an odd euphemism, but particularly so in the incurable and…

6 years ago

Fidel Castro: An Antagonist Remembered

The last Marxist-Leninist to hold a place on the world stage has left, signalling the end to an era that…

6 years ago

Zaha Hadid (1950-2016): “I Don’t Design Nice Buildings”

Zaha Hadid orphaned this world on March 31 and left it waiting for great works that now will never be.…

6 years ago

Eduardo Galeano: Remembering a Forgotten Continent

In the last days of his presidency, José Mujica visited the Casmu Hospital in Montevideo to pay his respects to…

9 years ago

Charlie Hebdo Attack: The Triumph of the Last Laugh

In the wake of the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left ten staff members and…

9 years ago

Chinua Achebe (1930-2013): A Great Tree Has Fallen

In the mid-20th century Africa was starting once more to find its own voice, having been gagged by centuries of…

10 years ago

A Grateful World Mourns Nelson Mandela

1918 - 2013 On the evening of Thursday December 5th a clearly shaken President Jacob Zuma announced to South Africa…

10 years ago