Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The art of trucking, Malian style

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Walter Battiss: The last orgy



Moshekwa Langa: A painter's muse



A message to Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave



Stephen Hobbs: Recording a city in flux

Friday, July 3, 2009

Finding Little Switzerland

What is this?

Let me answer this reasonable question by stating what this blog isn't: it is neither a travel notebook nor a diary. It is, one could say, a dustbin of collected writings, some journalistic, others purely fanciful, escape pieces. As for the ridiculous title of this blog, Gogol said it all: "Perhaps it may strike the reader as a rather strange and farfetched name, but I can assure him that it was not farfetched at all..."