Working from home during the pandemic has been a challenge for many people with children, or well-meaning friends and partners who don’t recognise that a closed door is a boundary. Some of us find it hard to concentrate when there are distractions, large or small. The same applies for the Rwandan genocide survivors who attend […]

Thankfully, most of us don’t know. However, many of us have woken from a nightmare at two in the morning and then tried to stay awake for a while, clearing our minds, rather than plunging back to sleep where the nightmare resumes. Yet, this doesn’t come close to capturing the awfulness of repeated flashbacks to […]

Shortly after the devastating civil war in Liberia, I accompanied the inexhaustible President and Mrs Carter (then in their 80s) on an election monitoring mission. I was dispatched to Lower Bong County with a local driver called David. On the way out of bustling Monrovia, we passed hundreds of buildings, schools, homes and offices that […]