Lucid Magazine March issue

Welcome to Lucid Magazine's March update. Read on for previews of our current articles and features.


Sport's Glory Days: In the run up to the summer of sport, we revisit the past, assess the present and predict the future.

Crunch time for Sudan. Sylvia Arthur reports on Sudan's complex conflicts ahead of April's elections.

This is Mugham: James Willsher is enchanted by classical Azerbaijani music.

Have you been Googled? Athena Kugblenu reviews Ken Auletta's, Googled and finds darkness behind Google's dominance.


Rebel With a Cause: Lucid talks to Friends of the Earth chair Nnimmo Bassey about things that matter.

Sylvia Arthur interviews jazz trumpeter Christian Scott.

Ed Kashi speaks to Lucid ahead of his London exhibition about his work, his activism and the future of the Niger Delta.

Paul Knipe visits St Petersburg and discovers Russia’s bloody history

Here's to enlightened reading....

The Lucid Team.

From the new issue of Lucid: Nature's Revenge

Dust storms, flash floods and bush fires. Is this the end of the world as we know it? Sylvia Arthur goes on the road with the men and women determined to alert the world to the gravity of climate change. Read more

Lucid's Top 5 for April 09: #2

In at number two...

Much has been made of the USA’s first black president and Iceland’s first openly gay prime minister but we ask whether the UK is ready for either.

The question is: “Will the UK elect a gay PM before a black PM?”

Athena Kugblenu and Francis Kaikumba go head-to-head to debate a hot topic in the run up to our politically-charged May issue. Read our tête-à-tête then join the debate by leaving a message in the comment box: http://www.lucidmagazine.co.uk/#/headtohead/4532736292

Lucid's Top 5 for April 09: #1

In at number one...

April 6th marks the 15th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and, in an exclusive interview, Paul Knipe talks to Mr Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, the man whose story inspired the 2004 Oscar-nominated film starring Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo and Nick Nolte. Mr Rusesabagina now runs the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation and campaigns against injustice, particularly in the Great Lakes region of Africa, which includes Rwanda and the Congo. He says:

"Unfortunately it takes a movie for the world to wake up. It took 10 years for Hotel Rwanda to be made, for the international community to realise that there was genocide in Rwanda. It is taking just as long to realise that in the Congo – since 1996 I believe – more than 5 million people have been butchered, and yet we do not raise a single finger to say no to cruelty and crimes."

Read his inspirational story here.