Excerpt from Africa, Altered states, Ordinary miracles, Richard Dowden ‘Westerners living in Africa for the first time are always struck...

I often say that Joburg has been one of my favourite places to live in. After being scarred by Chicago winters and utterly resentful of...

It was only in South Africa that I realised just how much my learning was ‘westernised’, for lack of a better term. I grew up in...

The reason I had found myself in South Africa in the first place was entirely related to work. I never had a burning desire to move...

It’s 2020, the year of Covid. I have in effect emigrated back home. It’s Sunday afternoon, and I wonder what I would be doing if I were...

Victoria falls, Zimbabwe After a long day walking under the hot Zimbabwean sun, I find myself exhausted and taking a moment to recover as...

Namaste. That was how my professor greeted me, in his attempt to acknowledge my Indian heritage. I stammered to find my words – the last...

Home, feeling like the ocean beyond the reefs. The internal rush of emotion. The overwhelming drive for something, anything, for more....

Dear ocean Deep, unknown and full of life May I just ask, How many lives have you taken? I feel inexplicably drawn and want to plunge To...

Because there is so much to share: Laughter, sunsets, good wine Suitcases, fears and dreams Too much to put to rout, without having tried...

​I want to know the possibilities In spite of our failures and weaknesses In spite of the false hopes and shattered dreams In spite of...

To the child in you To the searching soul in you To the warrior in you … and to the passion inside of you I see you soaring into the sky...

I would be the stars which observe, watch but never interfere. I would be the sunshine that can please without any effort. I would be an...

He arrived, tall, well built, beautiful. He didn’t smile. He didn’t like the table I was already at and instructed the waiter to change...