Laikipia ‘Let us go in amongst the cattle and talk,’ said the Councillor Jeremiah. That means a serious matter is…

Kiwayu Island, Kenya I came on a holiday to unwind and decompress but I have just been handed the bill…

Kuala Lumpur I dropped into Malaysia armed with F. Spencer Chapman’s anti-Japanese guerrilla war memoir The Jungle is Neutral and…

Kenya An image I will never forget is of Ben Freeth’s three little children on the front lawn of their…

Indian Ocean As a child I wandered Kenya’s north shore beaches. On coral reefs I hunted rare cowries. The Bajunis…

Indian Ocean Coast I am woken at dawn by bastardised Australian and Swahili. ‘Wakey wakey hands off snakey,’ says Abo.…

Kenya While staying recently on a lonely farm in the Highveld east of Johannesburg, I met a grey parrot that…

Zimbabwe ‘Ah, and no cake to offer you!’ Mrs H— said. ‘I would have baked one if only I’d known…

Laikipia As our farm manager Celestino Sikuku drove home with two other workers last month a gang of bandits waylaid…

36,000 feet Hello Link When I was a teenager on a flight to Nairobi I sat next to a pretty…

Port-au-Prince Haiti seems almost beautiful from the air. Hillsides eroding into the Caribbean like a rained-on sandcastle. Up close I…