When I was in Cape Town I had the experience of working with Medecins Sans Frontieres in the township of Khayelitsha, which has one of the highest burdens of HIV infection and tuberculosis across South Africa and globally. The shots I took have been used in several reports and this is the latest. Meeting the doctors and [...]

A very good friend of mine, Mara Amats, was a great traveller especially to Africa. An accomplished painter, her travels inspired her art, and in the sixties she was invited to advise and restore a number of frescoes for the Coptic churches of the Lake Tana region and Tigre province in Ethiopia. However, early into [...]