Category Archives: Africa

2019 KILI INITIATIVE # 6 – Kibo Lodge Reveille

August 6, 2019 – 10:39 am

5:55am came early the next morning. Young voices issued from the Kibo Lodge gardens and I rose from bed. The entire entourage was gathered in a clearing. Loitokitok glowed on a near hilltop. The sun was rising in the East. I thought about going back to sleep, then reproached myself, “I didn’t come all this […]

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What Snow?

March 24, 2019 – 4:56 pm

The US Meteorological Survey has reported that New York City received a little over twenty inches of snow this winter. All I saw were a few dustings, then again throughout February I was in Kenya and Tanzania. Snow topped Mount Kilimanjaro and some days ran down the slopes, however the equatorial sun melted the snow […]

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Kili Initiative 2019 # 1 – JFK to NAIROBI

March 20, 2019 – 9:17 pm

In early February I met Natalia Rios, Larry Fishbourne, and Laikyn Graham at JFK Airport for a flight to Nairobi, Kenya. The young New Yorkers were the members of the Kili Initiative’s 2019 team and I was their ‘chaperone’. The Initiative’s goal was to broaden their horizons by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in […]

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GOING SOUTH

December 11, 2016 – 7:34 am

Several years ago I watched Charlotte Rampling on the BBC. The actress had been a fantasy of mine after seeing THE NIGHT PORTER and the 60-year-old was promoting her new film by Laurent Cantent’s HEADING SOUTH. This movie featured a rare examination of sex, lust, and lust set in Haiti of the 1970s and Charlotte […]

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The Brides of Mopti

August 29, 2016 – 10:00 pm

The Niger River runs 4000 kilometers through Western Africa. Its existence was known to the Romans, although few people were aware of its source. Mungo Park explored the Mali interior finding death beyond the relative safety of Timbucktoo. It was a common end for most European seeking the shrink the expanse of ‘terra incognita’ on […]

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