Africa – Dying to Get In

Dublin Cemetery, Banana Islands, Sierra Leone

January 30, 2025

In the village of Dublin in Sierra Leone sits an old, old cemetery. Like many cemeteries in this part of the world, the headstones have fallen, choked by a jungle…

St John’s Anglican Church, Mbweni, Zanzibar

January 26, 2020

Knowing I had a thing about cemeteries, the lovely Bulu made a detour and took us to St John’s Anglican Church in Mbweni. As with most churches these days outside…

Chapwani Island, Zanzibar

January 14, 2020

I asked around. I wanted to get to Grave Island. No one seemed to know. Perhaps had I given it its real name, Chapwani, I might have had more luck.

Pop culture or traditional culture?

January 4, 2016

The Man Who Knew Too Much, Hitchcock’s 1956 thriller, with Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart opens in Marrakesh. Ten years later, in 1966, Our Man in Marrakesh aka Bang! Bang! You’re Dead! with Tony…