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From a way off, as he entered the café, he looked young and handsome but when he sat down there…
Never say ‘never again’
Twenty years ago, I was a witness to the Rwandan genocide. Those who speak of lessons from it are deluded
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Laikipia When I first knew Michael Cunningham-Reid he was such a strict teetotaller that he would not eat trifle for…
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Laikipia When I first knew Michael Cunningham-Reid he was such a strict teetotaller that he would not eat trifle for…
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Laikipia ‘I am old and cannot work again,’ said Celestino. ‘But you are 46 and we have many years to…
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Laikipia ‘I am old and cannot work again,’ said Celestino. ‘But you are 46 and we have many years to…
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On the flight into Kinshasa, I sat next to an elderly Englishman who was pallid with fear. He revealed that…
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On the flight into Kinshasa, I sat next to an elderly Englishman who was pallid with fear. He revealed that…
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Laikipia In the cattle rustlers’ camp, I know as I write this that the warriors are sharpening their blades, staring…
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Laikipia In the cattle rustlers’ camp, I know as I write this that the warriors are sharpening their blades, staring…
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As I write this, my hands are seared and bruised from holding a hot iron after branding our cattle. We…
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As I write this, my hands are seared and bruised from holding a hot iron after branding our cattle. We…
The new tomb raiders
In Egypt’s turmoil, many ancient sites are being looted
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Wizards inland from the little Somali port of Barawe bewitched a person to come to them by banging a nail…
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Wizards inland from the little Somali port of Barawe bewitched a person to come to them by banging a nail…
‘Are you my death?’
What it was like at the Westgate mall, from two of those who survived
An African Khmer Rouge
If Al-Shabaab was behind the terrorist attack in Nairobi, then the group has come a long way since its foundation…
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It was towards dusk by the time we had given the tourist police the slip and started climbing the pyramid…
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It was towards dusk by the time we had given the tourist police the slip and started climbing the pyramid…
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Laikipia The bull elephant had roamed our northern marches of the Laikipia plateau for decades. I always recognised him…
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Laikipia The bull elephant had roamed our northern marches of the Laikipia plateau for decades. I always recognised him…
They weren’t all shooting up or shooting each other
Rift Valley, Kenya The other day when I told the headmaster of a top British public school that I came…
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Kenya Home is beyond the perimeter of modern Kenya and way off the grid. When the ancient generator goes off…
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Kenya Home is beyond the perimeter of modern Kenya and way off the grid. When the ancient generator goes off…
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Il Pinguaan Springs When I first saw the Pinguaan Springs they were small, fetid bogs set about with papyrus, the…
