Archive for April 2009
In time honoured fashion I managed to trick my kids to run out to see an imaginary friend on April Fools' morning - although I suspect when they get older I'll be on the receiving end. Skimming the Nigerian press, with its usual colourful stories of corruption and extremes - the man with over 80 [...]
Jeanne fiddled with the edge of her gitenge, tracing the pattern in the brown cloth with her finger again and again, telling me her experiences in the Rwandan genocide, and of the years after 1994. I sat in her small mud-walled house simply listening as she spoke of her pain and the times of despair [...]
On Saturday morning, I was pleased to leave behind the office buildings where I’d spent the week, as I drove out to visit the biggest outdoor market in Harare in the downtown high-density suburb called Mbare. Here were row after row of shaded stalls covering several hundred square metres, mainly selling vegetables and groceries, where [...]
