An Obituary for Footwear
around him were stacked books in an African language more ancient than English don’t stop now… read on!
Tag: travelogue
Loving and Dining in the Coal City
although there is no evidence that the Enugwu man loves his lover less, as it is in their dining table, so it is in Coal City’s restaurant: she jealously sees to their food, in and out of their home. don’t stop now… read on!
A Traveller's Notebook; Lost in Kampala
‘He could easily be my father.’ He told his wife, ‘I won’t want my father stranded without a passport in the middle of a journey…’ 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!
Sudan! Sudan!
At a reading, someone once asked what inspired my poem, ‘Sudan! Sudan!’ The short answer was: crossing the longest river in the world, during a visit to the largest country don’t stop now… read on!