Dr. Mark Nicholson7 minDodging acronyms and Ebola in UgandaI am just back from Uganda, a country I love but which is not the holiday destination of the month: there is an Ebola outbreak there...
Dr. Mark Nicholson5 minHustler President Elected in KenyaA while ago I rang a friend in Mombasa to find she was at a political rally for one of the presidential candidates in our recent election...
Dr. Mark Nicholson6 minLast Tango in Tanga Plunting in African mountains. I recently returned from two plant hunting (what we call “plunting”) trips in East Africa. The first was on Mt. Kenya...
Richard Pooley5 min“Burn My Love Letters!”Jane, my recently-widowed 95-year old mother-in-law didn’t say exactly “Burn my love letters!”. But close enough...
Dr. Mark Nicholson6 minOn the Politics of LanguageGeorge Bernard Shaw once wrote that England and the USA were “two countries divided by a common tongue”. But what happens when one...