The BBC ran a competition last month as part of the London African Music Festival. The prize was a pair of tickets for the concert of your choice and when I saw that the legendary Malian guitarist, Boubacar Traoré, was playing, I entered the competition, not thinking about the practicality of getting there from Rome. […]
Today was the Rome Marathon, 10,000 people puffing and panting past my house … three times as the course design would have it, at 2 kms, 35 kms and 40 kms. The start and finish is on the Fori Imperiali, next to the Colosseum. Our preparation for the event is limited to moving our car […]
The World Economic forum has just published its Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005 which assesses “the state of the networked readiness of 104 economies”. Top of the charts is Singapore, where half the population is selling duty-free hi-tech stuff to the other half, and Iceland, where all six people know how to use a computer […]
Rome is not as cosmopolitan a city as London or Paris, and almost the only obviously non-Italians in public view are windscreen cleaners, newspaper sellers and informal Prada sales reps, ever ready to scoop up their street wares in a sheet and leg it when the lookout signals police approaching. Yet Italy is the main […]
“There is no tool for development more effectivethan the empowerment of womenâ€
Kofi Annan
Here are some of the issues the UN is dealing with:
Women and health – Often women have different and unequal access to and use of basic health resources, including primary health services for the prevention and treatment of childhood diseases, […]
Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
Currently resident in Dakar, Senegal.
Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.
...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.
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