I would hate to be the Health Minister right now. I sympathize with him. Dealing with striking doctors is stress enough. But Ebola? Ebola is supposed to happen in Congo or Uganda. Not here. I would never have imagined Ebola in Nigeria. Maybe the Health...
Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The main gateway to Africa’s largest economy. The roof is leaking at different spots. Filthy plastic buckets are placed randomly. These eyesores collect the leaking water. Travellers carefully sidestep them. Travellers also dodge puddles of water. I talked to Mr. Christopher. He...
From the UK Telegraph of 22 December 2013, a profile of actress Elizabeth McGovern: “I get the impression that in Africa people have sex far more freely than we do back home,” reflects McGovern. “You see certain cultures where there’s just endemic cruelty to women. I...
From The New York Times of April 22, 2014, about Barack Obama’s relative: "On a recent morning in Kenya, she sat in a bright orange dress and blue head scarf on the veranda of the Obama homestead. Recovering from a bout of malaria and rubbing the...