To make sure your friend is a true friend,
you have to go with him,
to travel with him night and day,
travel with him near and...

A short travel story by Geoffrey Gorer (1905-1985), an English anthropologist and writer. He visited West Africa in 1934, in order to study...

Greetings to the chief of an Akan state on the occasion of the new year The year has come round.
I have come to...

Some 22,000 years ago, they were the largest group of humans on earth: the Khoisan, a tribe of hunter-gatherers in southern Africa. Today, only...

Give me a chair
and let me sit among you
as I celebrate poverty
and scarcity. The face of the poor
remains wrinkled...