Revisiting Hargeisa (2)
Mohammed would probably have saved himself some camels if Nigerian technology had been incorporated into the Somali bridal process… don’t stop now… read on!
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Revisiting Hargeisa (1)
And so it was that in August I paid my second visit to Hargeisa, Somaliland, in time to attend the 7th Hargeisa International Book Fair. The theme was ‘Imagination’, don’t stop now… read on!
A Traveller's Notebook; That Fortnight in Hargeysa
All this is getting boring, actually: nice Ethiopians, nice Somalis, nice Kenyans… My instincts tell me that the population of the Horn have to be more complicated than this. don’t stop now… read on!
A Day in the Life (319 of 365) Writing at Funerals; An Apologia
Sometimes I wish I could switch off my brain in church, the way I switch off my mobile phone. don’t stop now… read on!
A Day in the Life (5 of 365 – Chukwu ma)
Exploding bombs have a way of intruding onto anyone’s agenda don’t stop now… read on!
A Day in the Life (4 of 365 – Emotional Geography)
Once, a perfect stranger greeted me confidently in a strange language and I smiled, I am not Tiv, I said, I am just wearing our national dress. don’t stop now… read on!
A Day in the Life (2 of 365 – The Metaphor of the Flying Bonnet)
Wisdom wears disguise for fear of mobs, is not too precise:
did he prophesy the man’s death… or did he kill the man? don’t stop now… read on!
A Day in the Life (1 of 365)
as a full grown tree, wisdom can be unmistakeable, but as seed and sapling it can look a lot like foolishness.