And she stuck to her guns when her colonialist chief tried to have her sacked, when Churchill wanted to pull the British out of Iraq altogether, when political machinations in Europe brought all her achievements to the brink of disaster, and when, playing her last card, she kept King Faisal from throwing it all away in the name of Arab supremacy.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Gertrude Bell'

While some BBC correspondents reported from the Johannesburg summit that the attacks on European and British attitudes went down well with black South African taxi drivers watching the proceedings, others said that the anti-colonialist style of the rhetoric was not representative of what many young Africans want or of what governments want.

BBC: Namibia