The Revenge of the Typo: How a Print Error Nearly Ended My Career

We all make typos don’t we? Of course we do, because we bloggers are human and proofreaders are luxuries. Nevertheless, … More

Kivu: The Shimmering Lake in the Shadow of the Volcano

In the very heart of Africa, between Rwanda and D.R. Congo, is a silvery, majestic lake framed by breezy palms … More

One morning I phoned my friend Thierry. “Someone’s stolen my clothes.” “I can lend you clothes,” he said. Thierry was … More

The twin pillars of passion in Rwanda are Christianity and English Premier League Football. The sides of the small buses, … More

Continuing the series, Letters from the Heart of Africa No narrative on Rwanda can really ever avoid the genocide. Its magnitude … More

Last weekend we went for a long punt in Cambridge; we glided on the glinting River Cam in a flat-bottomed … More

This is a true mystery that happened in my kitchen – it involves multiple murders, male-only breeding, a sex-change and … More

Continuing the series, Letters from the Heart of Africa. We all want to go places, forwards, like a car, pressing … More