How a deaf girl in Eastern Zambia stole our hearts
….this is Africa. It smells like Africa, it feels like only sub-saharan Africa can feel, it gets in your blood, under your skin, just like they say. Either that or it freaks you out, the poverty, the utterly different culture, the snakes, the spiders, the malaria, and you never come back. I haven’t posted since…
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Cholera, Malaria, drought, hunger. Africa can be a hard place.
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We went to pick up Ketty a week ago for the long summer holiday at the end of her first year at Magwero School for the Deaf. She was so happy to see us; myself she hadn’t seen since last February just after she’d started at the school. I’m struck by how young she still…
Read MoreThis part of Africa is one of the poorest parts of the world. People cook outside, with firewood, which is one of the indices of poverty. Village life can appear an idyll. The climate is beautiful, social relationships are mostly co-operative and people have time to talk, to enjoy simple pleasures. Such lifestyle can appeal…
Read MoreWith thanks to Unesco for permission to use their video – see below for explanation. I went to Gule Wamkulu in a village in Eastern Province, with the director of the NGO where I was staying. She and I were the only muzungus (white people) there so it was very personal; arranged for us by…
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