James MacManus

Jun 5, 2024 | news24.com | James MacManus

Foreign Correspondent Richard Brady arrives in Africa to report on a nationalist insurgency that has gripped a once-beautiful country. An innocent newcomer, he struggles to stay neutral in a bitter war waged with terror and atrocity by both sides. He is soon drawn to Patience, a young township teacher with a fast tongue and a sharp wit. Their affair is tested when Brady discovers that his lover is recruiting her students to join the guerrillas and helping smuggle them across the border.

Apr 24, 2024 | inkl.com | Jonathan Steele |James MacManus |Antonio de Figueirdo

An almost bloodless military coup yesterday toppled the Portuguese prime minister, Dr Marcello Caetano, and left the country in the hands of a junta pledged to restore civil liberties after almost 50 years of dictatorial rule.

Sep 18, 2023 | dailymail.co.uk | James MacManus

A spring time affair in Paris should be enshrined in memory, sacrosanct from the trembling hand of time. That first kiss in a Renault cab under rear-view mirror eyes, the hip-hugging walks along the Seine, the throat-clutching glass of Pernod, all the makings of a cinematic cliche, they cannot surely become blurred with age? And they aren't. Everything else about those weeks in Paris in 1974 remains in my mind as if yesterday.