Commuting To Timbuktu

 We have completed our work in Timbuktu. The manuscript work continues in Djenne, and our work in Mali may also continue in Gao. But the new...

I am really quite cross. During the last few years of working with the three great libraries of Timbuktu I used to put up a ‘manuscript of...

Many Malians are trying to get into the 'Poulet de Chair' business. That means the raising of chickens for their meat, rather than t...

On the second of August Columba and I boarded a small prop plane at Bamako in the company of Fred, an American journalist writing a story ab...

  Sitting here alone in my tenth - and last day - of quarantine. Various representatives of the UK Gov. have been keeping me from feeling lo...

I arrived back in London on Wednesday after two intense weeks in Mali. This time Father Columba Stewart, my boss, joined me, escaping his Mi...

 It has been a long time... It is because I, like so many others, feel there is not much to talk about in this monotonous lock-down world we...