As I sat listening to a podcast on Brazil that I had downloaded on my computer before I left the States, my displeasure and frustration for most African governments was reinforced again and again. During the eight year presidency of Lula de Silva, infrastructure was implemented in most of Brazil. The poorer classes were given […]
Return to Cameroon 2011
Concealing three computers in my small carryon luggage, I expected to have problems when I reached my final destination, Cameroon. Instead before I even boarded the plane in Seattle, the woman at the United counter threatened to send my suitcase through as luggage if it didn’t comply to size regulation. After repacking, stuffing my shoulder bag […]
The Mexican Saga continues
Southern Mexico November 2010 The noise of the chain saw destroyed the silence of a beautiful sunny morning and finally became so abusive, I went out to the patio to see what was going on. I assumed the bomberos (firemen) were cleaning up the branches we had cut down yesterday and failed to remove. Instead […]
Christ Stopped at Eboli
The seventies in New York City was the showplace for new wave foreign cinema and I became an avid film buff, dropping names like Fellini, Antonioni, Bergman, Truffaut and Goddard. The other day as I was walking up the dusty dirt road in Fundong, watching small children carry plastic containers of stream water on their […]