Clyde SANGER

CLYDE SANGER November 20, 1928 - January 20, 2022 In Ottawa, his home for the past 51 years. British-born and educated, Clyde became a passionate Canadian and internationalist. After Shrewsbury and Oxford, he discovered the wider world as a young journalist in Stoke-on-Trent, Kentucky and, decisively, Africa. The issues of class, racism, and colonialism he came up against, coupled with Britain's Suez crisis, changed his world view for good. As the editor of the Central African Examiner (1957-59) and the Manchester Guardian's first Africa correspondent (1960-65), he covered a crucial period and befriended a generation of young African leaders. In Africa, too, he met Penny (red-haired and Canadian, like his mother) who brought him back to Canada where he continued to work as a journalist (Guardian, Economist, Globe and Mail) and in international development (CIDA, IDRC and North-South Institute), raised four sons, and never stopped pushing his new homeland to pursue a more independent and enlightened role in the world. Mentor to generations of young journalists and activists in Canada and Africa, poetry and dog lover, soccer dad, cyclist, he treated great and small - Economist and Glebe Report deadlines - with equal respect. Predeceased by Penny and his sister Mella, he is survived by his brother Jim Sanger and godson John Trotter; sons Matthew, Richard, Toby and Daniel; beloved daughters-in-law Debbie, Mary, Narissa and Catherine; grandchildren Ariel, Maeve, Malcolm, Claire, Tommy, Louis, Alia, Adam, Antoine, Eliza and great-grandson, Theo. We are particularly grateful to the staff of Colonel By Retirement Home who gave him such care and friendship in his last years. We will all miss his warmth, wit and generosity.