2000 words/15 minutes [After a year running a youth project in Canada’s NWT…where I lived in an uninsulated cabin in temperatures of -40c, I was travelling around the world, in 1983. I got a crack at being a journalist again, and this time, I actually sent off some articles.] Slightly smaller than Switzerland, Taiwan liesContinue reading “A Hard Rain Over (the other) China”
Monthly Archives: April 2021
Slapstick (a folk history)
It was the annual Festival of the Glorious Ewe, the patron saint of Mordek, and the capital was thronged with visitors. Kopek, chief spy of the Pimpleknuckle Confederation, surreptitiously mingled with the crowd disguised as a peasant on a jaunt to town, though his monocle and well waxed handlebar moustaches jarred slightly with his shepherds smock and slouch hat.
Meeting Jacques Ngoun
I first met Jacques Ngoun, a Bagyeli Pygmy from south Cameroon, at a IUCN run forest conservation conference, on my first visit to Cameroon in February 1999.
Club Ideal Daze
Cameroon’s premiere spot for the savvy traveller 2760 words/15 minutes I went to Cameroon in January 1999 to attend a conference in the capital Yaounde. Or more accurately, I went to a conference in Yaounde to get into Cameroon. Cameroon doesn’t encourage visitors, and so getting a visa to Cameroon requires an invitation from aContinue reading “Club Ideal Daze”
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