Making Sense

What is all the fuss about? This is the first time since 1980 (independence), that Zimbabweans go to the polls without Robert Mugabe as the ...

I had gone to bed early that evening. Completely knackered after a long day, I was half-asleep when I heard a WhatsApp tune from my ...

A few years ago, we were once more travelling to Rwanda to write about the progress and development of this tiny country in the middle ...

Land reform – or the lack thereof – has become one of the most hotly debated issues in South Africa during the first 100 days ...

Two years ago, I started the research for my book about the descendants of the white settlers in Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe. When independence came ...

A two-litre soft drink and a loaf of white bread is the standard diet for most construction workers in Cape Town. At least that is ...

One year ago, Andreas and I did our first feature story for Waterfront, the magazine produced by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). Since then, the ...

Africa is often talked about in sweeping generalisation and it’s easy to believe that not much is happening on the developing front – or with ...

I never got to meet Sudan. The rhino Sudan, that is. Nor did I ever get to see a male northern white rhino in the ...