African oil fact: the US imported more petroleum from the Gulf of Guinea than Saudi Arabia in 2005.

Lenin was an expert in kindling revolutions, but he would have been puzzled by what took place in 1989 in Eastern Europe.

The Gospel Sustains Me recounts how St. Therese de Liseux read the Bible, and how it affected her life and spirituality.

IBM and the Holocaust, by Edwin Black, recounts the alliance of Nazi Germany with IBM before and during the Second World War. IBM had an office at the Auschwitz death camp.

"Eating" is how Kenyans describe the graft received by corrupt politicians and the well-connected in their famished country. Michela Wrong's "It's our turn to eat" is an X-ray of modern Kenya.