Nicholas Jubber on the Sahara, Watch Star Wars on the Telly
I was six when I first saw the Sahara – sitting on my father’s knee, watching Star Wars on the telly. It stuck in my mind as the most remote, Continue Reading
I was six when I first saw the Sahara – sitting on my father’s knee, watching Star Wars on the telly. It stuck in my mind as the most remote, Continue Reading
Do you know where should visit in Africa? Here are the answer. Every September, backpackers, southern Africans and expats flood to Malawi’s Lake of Stars festival, held by the water Continue Reading
I was completely gobsmacked by Madagascar when I first arrived in 2006, as part of a televised tour around the Tropic of Capricorn. It’s like nowhere else on Earth. The Continue Reading
It’s a bright afternoon on Cape Town’s Muizenberg beach and I’m racing down the sand in a wetsuit, stopping to lunge or star-jump as coach Nikita shouts orders. I may Continue Reading
We’d like to hear about it, whether it’s an urban strand like Cape Town, Port Elizabeth or Durban, or a remote spot where camping’s the only accommodation option. Your favourite Continue Reading
On Twitter, #LintonLies, set up by Zambian writer Lydia Ngoma, was trending as people started to pour scorn on Linton’s version of certain events and her take on life there. Continue Reading
It’s Saturday night and I’m sharing limited oxygen with Addis Ababa’s great and good at Mama’s Kitchen, a wood-and-glass bar on the fourth floor of an innocuous shopping mall near Continue Reading
It’s Sunday lunch and a couple of hundred people have got there before us and are already throwing some moves to DJ Crazy’s booming South African house beats. The sun Continue Reading
The film – which featured Sidi Bou Said and Hammamet and oasis town Touzeur and was shown simultaneously in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Milan – is part of an Continue Reading
The sound that defines the city You can’t walk through the city for more than two minutes without seeing the minibuses ferrying people around. They leave only when they’re full Continue Reading