We did a several day trek in the Annapurna Conservation area of Nepal in late October, early November. The area we were trekking was at relatively low altitude (highest point was 3200m) and populated every couple of hours by small villages of a couple to […]
Reading books from and about Africa was a great delight given how shockingly little we are exposed to in the United States! I hope you’ll find one or two books on this list — or some other list for that matter — that interest you. […]
As part of a several week safari through East Africa, I had the chance to visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda’s capital city. Many of us–especially in the West– are likely familiar with the Rwandan genocide from news in the 1990s, or maybe from […]
In my short few months in Africa, I managed to become one of the more than 200 million people each year who will be infected with malaria (WHO, as of 2015). 89% of these cases, and 91% of the over 400,000 deaths annually, occur in […]
