MARTA SANTIVÁÑEZ AND EMMA YEOMANS
The British reporter Michela Wrong has made a career from telling inconvenient truths. Her 2005 book I Didn’t Do It for You narrated the story of Eritrea’s bumpy journey towards independence, among an international community that apparently couldn’t care less. In 2009, It’s Our Turn to Eat turned an unsparing eye on corruption in present-day Kenya. Neither book can be bought in the countries they depict. It’s not that they’re banned as such—it’s just that, as she explained recently, “no bookseller will sell them.”
In a place like Eritrea, which has been called the world’s biggest prison because of its human rights record, having limits placed on your intellectual freedom is no great surprise—perhaps even a source of pride. By contrast, the University of Bristol is not somewhere that Wrong expected to confront issues of free speech. In November 2017, however, she was invited to address a student society there, only to find out that the organisation was required to fill out a background check, confirming that she conformed with the university’s “safe space” policies.
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