The Nahmias Cipher Report

When I was a child I first encountered a person afflicted with Elephantiasis when we moved to Nigeria. I wrote about this encounter in my post The Road to Naijiriya which details my arrival in Lagos as we embarked on our new life in Ile Ife. Now, this disease is once again in the media [...]

New African Soul in the vein of Cassandra Wilson, Miriam Mekada, Cesaria Evora, Sarah Vaughan and Sade. The rhythm of Africa from North to South and East to West. Viva Africa!

Idi Amin’s bloody reign is magnificently captured in the movie “The Last King of Scotland”. Recalled in the memoir is an violent and frightening encounter we had with Idi Amin’s soldiers in the 1970′s while trying to enter Kenya after a 29 day journey through seven countries in Africa.