Tag: africa
1 Feb
It has always been about storytelling. Childhood is made magical by storytelling and impoverished by the lack of it. Romance floats on the...
26 Nov
At 3,540 kms long, the Zambezi River is the fourth-longest river in Africa and the largest that flows into the Indian Ocean from Africa. It...
8 Sep
Swift, solitary, elegant, fragile. The cheetah is my favorite cat in Africa and one that I had the privilege of living with over the course...
7 Sep
6 Sep
The traders came from the Congo laden with Kuba. Gorgeous pieces, we laid them out in the garden and began to negotiate.
1 Sep
Coming back to Nairobi is to come home. The smell of early morning fog, birdsong transected by the passage of small aircraft,...
29 Aug
28 Aug
On the eve of my departure for Kenya, my heart place, I offer you a glimpse of what makes this country and this continent so unique. I first...
25 Jun
Luxury in travel is defined by who you meet what you see when you have the encounter and how it comes to pass… a reward at the end of a...
30 Jan
Our travels begin in the imagination, long before the body is set in motion; and they do not end when we return home. The sounds, sights and...
18 Dec
His daughter had died, he told me, tears running freely down his cheeks. He went alone into the desert in search of himself, to touch the...
25 Sep
For me as a New Yorker, the greatest compensation for the passing of summer and long days spent outside are the new art shows that draw me into...
12 Jul
I went to university to be an anthropologist. As the most insightful of my professors quickly observed, my motivation stemmed more from my...
18 Jan
I couldn’t quite believe it. 36 hours after I had left the snows of New York, I was dining beachfront en plein air, in an Italian restaurant...
17 Nov
The Museum of Arts and Design has opened its Global Africa Project, a blockbuster show of African and African-inspired art and craftwork. Many...
5 Oct
20 Aug
Say the word, bridge, and what comes to mind? It might be a beautiful span like the one that links the Rhode Island mainland to Newport....
13 Aug
I was an anthropology major in college and grad school. Old loves never die. When I came across One Fine Thread, Anna Haber’s blog on global...
28 Jul
On the open plains of the southern Serengeti stands a massive fig tree. It’s trunk measures over 20 feet around, and its capacious limbs,...
12 Jul
Kenya’s Maasai Mara, 1974-1976: camped between the Olareorok and Njagatiak Rivers, a 4-hour, Maasai-stride from Governor’s Camp;...
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