By Bonnie Bates. There is one main road that links northern Kenya with Ethiopia. With the arrival of the long rains season (March to May), this road becomes a deep muddy [...]
By Bonnie Bates. These are just some of the many remaining Nubian pyramids found in Meroë, located north of present-day Khartoum. Meroë was the last (of three) Kushite [...]
By Bonnie Bates. This is the burned-out headquarters of the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. It continues to stand as a monument to the popular revolution that [...]
By Angela Wright. Along Panama’s Caribbean coast lies Portobelo, a small port city that was formerly the hub of Spanish commercial exports out of South America. Within [...]
By Angela Wright. Next to a bustling thoroughfare in the Dominican Republic’s capital and largest city is a reconstruction of the first seat of Spain’s Viceroyalty of [...]
By Bonnie Bates. Standing atop the Aswan Dam, looking across Lake Nasser towards Sudan, it’s hard not to wonder what is lurking under the water of this man-make lake. [...]
By Bonnie Bates. Seventy-five children, one teacher and one teacher’s aide – a typical scene in Tanzanian schools. Kids are eager to learn and the teachers work [...]
By Bonnie Bates. The Maasai stand out wherever they go, striking in their height, beauty and colourful attire. A nomadic people of the open plains of northern Tanzania and [...]
By Bonnie Bates. The place to be in Marrakech. During the day the square is an open-air marketplace, linking a labyrinth of souks with the Kotoubia mosque and other [...]
By Audra A. Diptee, Ph.D. Gwada – the name by which locals refer to Guadeloupe – offers the world a carnaval in which history is ever present. Fortunately, [...]