How the Berlin Conference Clung on Africa: What Africa Must Do

How the Berlin Conference Clung on Africa: What Africa Must Do

Monday, 7 October 2019

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Slide 2 of 14: The mercury hovers at -50 C along the P-504 (R504), the Kolyma Highway, which connects Oymyakon to Yakutsk. The route is known as the “Road of Bones” because its foundations contain the remains of forced labourers who died building it during Joseph Stalin’s rule. “The landscape had none of the bleakness you expect of Siberia,” Chapple says. “Clean white hills rippling away in all directions.”

No comments: