During one of my annual holidays while working as a foreign correspondent and journalist in Africa…
Tag: Oscar Tamsen
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…
Speaking with clicking tongues
A world-renowned Australian paleoanthropologist led me many years ago to immerse myself in the oldest culture…
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,…
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…
For the love of a women
Darkest Africa in the middle years of the last century saw many wars and insurrections but,…
Of Cabbages and Kings
One of the most varied and rugged of my journeys throughout Africa was a trip I…
Marvellous stories, Oscar
Ed, Thoroughly enjoyed the story by your new columnist Oscar Tamsen. Oscar has a wealth…