I want to do for field rations what Jamie Oliver did for school dinners
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…
If you want a real safari, head to Botswana
As a boy camping with my father on safaris deep in the African bush, there were no tents involved; we…
I cannot imagine living in a world without lions
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.…
There are echoes of Turkey and Armenia in the revisionist view of the Rwandan genocide
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.…
What happened when I tried to buy back my father’s farm
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…
From Burma — or maybe Saigon — to Manchester via Calcutta
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 flank of the forgotten corps of the Forgotten Army
The British who fought in Burma became known as the ‘Forgotten Army’ because this was a neglected theatre of the…
It's time for Kenya to put aside dreams of singing wells and dancing bulls
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…
Climbing Mount Kenya with my 13-year-old daughter
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…
Please take your holiday in Kenya this year
Rift Valley Many of my British tribe fled Kenya around independence in 1963 because they believed there was no future.…
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Rift Valley Many of my British tribe fled Kenya around independence in 1963 because they believed there was no future.…
The books that have kept me alive
In bed Safety measures — I’ve never been good at them, so inevitably I inhaled and got soaked by the…
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In bed Safety measures — I’ve never been good at them, so inevitably I inhaled and got soaked by the…
Hunted in Mogadishu by the Sick Man and the Jilbab
From a way off, as he entered the café, he looked young and handsome but when he sat down there…
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From a way off, as he entered the café, he looked young and handsome but when he sat down there…
Before you talk about 'Lessons from Rwanda', read this
Twenty years ago, I was a witness to the Rwandan genocide. Those who speak of lessons from it are deluded
A £50 million search for love
Laikipia When I first knew Michael Cunningham-Reid he was such a strict teetotaller that he would not eat trifle for…
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Laikipia When I first knew Michael Cunningham-Reid he was such a strict teetotaller that he would not eat trifle for…
