Author: Claire
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Botswana trip, part I: East London to Gaborone
Botswana trip, part I: East London to Gaborone My trip to Botswana was largely unplanned. I had been thinking and talking about Namibia for months, but the subsequent Botswana trip was last-minute. It wasn’t going to be a trip with much travelling round and tourist travel – I’d be at an event at the university…
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The joy of motion
A light breeze drifts past, taking the edge off the summer sunshine as I sit on the station platform. It is a perfect day – enough cool breeze not to be scorching hot but still not so windy that it feels as if the world might blow away. The air is crisp-clear. The Somerset West…
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The movement of people
I watched a debate recently about colonialism and reparations, specifically Arab colonialism in Africa. Combined with my recent brushes with the colonial history of Namibia, it got me thinking about the movement of people. Did you know, for example, that the first inhabitants of Madagascar were probably Austronesians who sailed on canoes from South East…