A National Hoax

The world’s biggest personal confidence trick ever pulled on a government and its people occurred in…

The case of the stolen baby

Working in Africa in the 1950’s and 60’s as a foreign correspondent and journalist saw me…

Churchill’s Houdini-style escape

The remarkable and varied history of Africa over the years has seen the presence of several…

Beryl Markham and Baroness von Blixen

Two strong willed women — one of them an international horse trainer –put the former British…

An island to oneself

Ever since Daniel Defoe wrote his novel ‘ Robinson Crusoe’ in 1719, the ambition of most…

Speaking with clicking tongues

A world-renowned Australian paleoanthropologist led me many years ago to immerse myself in the oldest culture…

The hunter turned hermit

During my time in Colonial Africa in the 1950s I was fortunate enough to meet up…

Failed Communism in Africa

The way the Chinese are attempting at present to politically influence the Pacific Nations is basically…

Call me “Dr. Albert” 

I had the stars of our universe in mind when I first set out to interview…

First Kibbutz

The first British military ‘kibbutz’ ever established with a big difference was my destination on one…

Elephant Whisperer

 Africa in the 1950s was very much like New Guinea at the time with ample numbers…

Dr Diamond

The now well-known spy phrase of ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ was not exclusive to the arch British…

The Little Tramp

As a very young boy I remember being totally captivated by the screamingly funny antics of…

The life of a Foreign Correspondent in Africa

Modern technology has become the best friend of the foreign correspondent who, in this 21st Century,…

Master of the birds

During my years as a foreign correspondent and journalist in what was a violent Africa over…

The work of the Leakey’s

The two words of “climate change” have only been used around the world in relatively recent…

Grace and Sara

The vast lion-controlled savannahs and the dark and mysterious rainforests of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda were…

The World’s Oldest Living Olympian

When I met an Irish coffee farmer in the foothills near Tanganyika’s Mount Kilimanjaro over half…

For the love of a women

Darkest Africa in the middle years of the last century saw many wars and insurrections but,…