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Laikipia, Kenya Out cross-country running on the farm in Kenya recently, I came face-to-face with a gang of bull…
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Nairobi Trout were first introduced into Kenya’s highland streams in 1905. Men like Ewart Grogan, ‘baddest and boldest of…
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Nairobi Trout were first introduced into Kenya’s highland streams in 1905. Men like Ewart Grogan, ‘baddest and boldest of…
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Laikipia When I was a boy in Devon we had an orchard. On a string of autumns, as the fruit…
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Laikipia When I was a boy in Devon we had an orchard. On a string of autumns, as the fruit…
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Laikipia With a shriek, the warrior arched his body, readying to sling his spear at my chest. The tear-dropped javelin…
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Laikipia With a shriek, the warrior arched his body, readying to sling his spear at my chest. The tear-dropped javelin…
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Juba I discovered a 1954 Morris Minor parked outside the Catholic mission station in Mopoi, South Sudan. The car had…
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Juba I discovered a 1954 Morris Minor parked outside the Catholic mission station in Mopoi, South Sudan. The car had…
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Hell’s Kitchen My ambition to open a fish and chip shop in Mogadishu has not happened yet, though I remain…
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Hell’s Kitchen My ambition to open a fish and chip shop in Mogadishu has not happened yet, though I remain…
Botswana
As a boy camping with my father on safaris deep in the African bush, there were no tents involved; we…
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Laikipia We are privileged to live with lions on the farm. We hear them most nights. We encounter them frequently.…
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Laikipia We are privileged to live with lions on the farm. We hear them most nights. We encounter them frequently.…
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Kenya It’s a long time since I thought of Thaddee, our Kigali stringer when I was covering Rwanda for Reuters.…
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Kenya It’s a long time since I thought of Thaddee, our Kigali stringer when I was covering Rwanda for Reuters.…
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Kenya I perused the brochure produced by Tanzania’s state corporation for livestock ranching, aimed at attracting foreign investors. Under ‘beef…
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Kenya I perused the brochure produced by Tanzania’s state corporation for livestock ranching, aimed at attracting foreign investors. Under ‘beef…
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England We dropped off our daughter Eve at her new school in the Midlands and started the long journey…
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England We dropped off our daughter Eve at her new school in the Midlands and started the long journey…
The Forgotten Army remembered
The British who fought in Burma became known as the ‘Forgotten Army’ because this was a neglected theatre of the…
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Laikipia ‘Good morning, sir!’ The warrior strides up to me on the high plains and shakes my hand. ‘May…
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Laikipia ‘Good morning, sir!’ The warrior strides up to me on the high plains and shakes my hand. ‘May…
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Kenya Highlands I’ve just descended Mount Kenya with Eve, my 13-year-old daughter, and her class of school leavers from Pembroke…
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Kenya Highlands I’ve just descended Mount Kenya with Eve, my 13-year-old daughter, and her class of school leavers from Pembroke…
