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From the archive: ‘Mama Boko Haram’: one woman’s extraordinary mission to rescue ‘he…

9/27/2023 • 38 min

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2020: Aisha Wakil knew many of Boko Haram’s fighters as children. Now she uses those ties to broker peace deals, mediate hostage negotiations and convince militants to put down their weapons – but as the violenc… Play episode

‘Voters are unhappier with the NHS than they’ve been for 30 years. As a GP…
Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote
From the archive: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life unde…
The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you…
‘Move forward. Flap around a little!’ How learning to swim in my 50s set m…
From the archive: A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gosp…
‘Ruzzki not welcome’: the Russian exiles getting a hostile reception in Ge…
The aftermath: how the Beirut explosion has left scars on an already broke…
From the archive: Golden Dawn: the rise and fall of Greece’s neo-Nazis
‘If I left, I’d have to go without a word’: how I escaped China’s mass arr…
Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned agai…
The Balkans’ alternative postal system: an ad-hoc courier’s tale
Best of 2023 … so far: How Deborah Levy can change your life
‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-torn Khartoum
Best of 2023… so far: The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man wa…
A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing?
Best of 2023… so far: ‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mi…
How hip-hop gave voice to a generation of Egyptians hungry for change
Best of 2023 … so far: Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war …
Victoria Amelina: Ukraine and the meaning of home
‘People are like, Wow!’: the man trying to make condoms sexy
From the archive: Bring up the bodies: the retired couple who find drownin…
How to reduce the damage done by gentrification
‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is behind extreme…
From the archive: Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire
How Ukraine’s national dish became a symbol of Putin’s invasion
‘Why I might have done what I did’: conversations with Ireland’s most noto…
From the archive: Life after deportation: ‘No one tells you how lonely you…
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature
From the archive: A 975-day nightmare: how the Home Office forced a Britis…
The planet’s economist: has Kate Raworth found a model for sustainable liv…
‘I knew the terror of lost time’: how my father’s dementia echoed my own a…
From the archive: Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation…
The backlash: how slavery research came under fire
Can humans ever understand how animals think?
From the archive: History as a giant data set: how analysing the past coul…
The strange survival of Guinness World Records
Out of our minds: opium’s part in imperial history
From the archive: The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love So…
The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us
Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy
From the archive: How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprisi…
The war on Japanese knotweed
Erdogan’s earthquake: how years of bad government made a disaster worse
From the archive: The man in the iron lung
On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the w…
The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysterie…
From the archive: Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a f…

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