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Wild life

When it comes to Africa, the media look away

20 November 2021

9:00 AM

20 November 2021

9:00 AM

Kenya

Each time I sit in St Bride’s on Fleet Street during the memorial of another friend, I look around at the crowds they’ve been able to pull in and feel terribly envious. Riffling through the order of service and then the church’s book of correspondents to find the faces of old comrades, I’m like a man wondering if any guests will bother turning up to one’s own hastily arranged bring-a-bottle party.

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