Keeping a dream alive …
At the far western end of Bulawayo’s wide streets lies a small, well-tended garden. It is the city’s railway museum. A neat lawn and a few bright coloured flower beds swelter in the heat.
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April 2024
Ancient Rome and Sub Saharan Africa
Murchison Falls is one of the great natural splendours of Africa. The best way to see it is to take a boat up the Victoria Nile through the hippo and crocodile that throng its clear, deep waters.
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Keeping a dream alive …
A full moon emerges above the horizon. Slowly at first, and then rapidly, the sound of hard, calloused palms beating the skin of drums rises from the huts all around us.
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Reflections on 30 Years After the Rwandan Genocide
The images, and the memories, never go away, even after nearly 30 years. Recalling them, or looking at photographs from that time, always raises my heartbeat – fear runs through in my head, it always happens, making me feel the old ghosts rising up.
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The humanity of those we don’t understand
On a long ago trip to Alaska I met some fascinating people who are the type of people who now believe in Trump’s MAGA vision. We don’t have to agree with them to try and understand them.
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