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Richard Dowden (born 20 March 1949 in Surrey, United Kingdom) is a British journalist who has specialised in African issues. Since 1975, he has worked for several British media and for the past eight years he has been the Executive Director of the Royal African Society. He is the author of the book ''Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles'' (Portobello Books, 2008), which has a foreword by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Dowden lives and works in London. == Journalistic Work == Richard Dowden first went to Africa in 1971 and worked as a volunteer teacher in a rural part of Uganda, until the end of 1972, when he left the country because of Idi Amin´s dictatorship. In Dowden's words, in December 1972, “Amin declared all whites in our area to be spies who had uniforms and guns hidden in their houses. It was time to go”.〔Dowden, R. ''Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles'', Portobello Books, 2008, p. 50.〕 On his return to Great Britain, Dowden worked for the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, mainly in Northern Ireland, and turned to journalism in 1975, being made Editor of ''The Catholic Herald'' in 1976. After joining ''The Times'' foreign desk in 1980, he began to travel to Africa and the Middle East until 1986, when he was appointed Africa Editor at the newly established newspaper ''The Independent''. In 1995, he became Diplomatic Editor of ''The Independent'', then moved to ''The Economist'' as Africa Editor. He has visited and written about almost every country in sub-Saharan Africa.〔http://www.richarddowden.info (Retrieved on the 1/10/2010)〕 His articles and documentaries in recent years include: * ("Chinua Achebe: A hero returns" ) (18/02/2009), BBC World Service * ("Jacob Zuma – a question of competence, not conscience" ) (23/04/2009), ''The Sunday Times'' * ("Britain should cease its one-sided support of Rwanda" ) (15/12/2008), ''The Independent'' * ("Mugabe's power ploy – Zimbabwe's president is using talks with Morgan Tsvangirai to buy time while he prepares for war" ) (26/07/2008), ''The Guardian'' * ("Condescension and ignorance are no help to Kenya – The West's patronising response to the recent events in Kenya betrays our lack of respect to a sophisticated continent" ) (06/06/2008). ''The Observer'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Dowden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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