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Blogs in May 2021

Rotten Row 29th May 2021

It is just after nine o’clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds. ‘Rotten Row’ is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the...

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Out of Darkness, Shining Light 7th January 2020

This is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone – and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles so that he could be borne across the sea...

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The Book of Memory 25th June 2016

The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd’s death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my...

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