The road from Eastern Zambia to Lusaka (Zambia’s capital city) winds mostly through villages, and on the seven-hour bus ride you see more goats than people on the road. At one point the road winds up through the Manenekela hills, giving beautiful views of the forest to take your mind off the treacherous road. One…
The short rains in Western Kenya lasted exactly 30 days in 1996, coinciding with my senior research project for university. I typed up my notes every afternoon to the racket of the weaver birds outside my window. While I explored the roles of women and men in child health, these weaver birds were the epitome…
Stories Around the Table are light-hearted anecdotes about figuring out what to eat and who to eat with when traveling around Africa. African food can be largely unfamiliar to travelers – both to Africans and non-Africans – given the incredible cultural and food diversity across the 54 countries and innumerable tribes across the continent. (Check…