Posts tagged with 'Benjamin Zephaniah'

02 Feb 09 No Comments

Starting to feel like the wrong sort of Snow

Once in a while the gods deal you an unexpected hand. I am attempting the apparently Latin-American impossible: Colombia to London inside 24 hrs. The signs are not good. An hour and a half to go to

01 Feb 09 No Comments

Rushdie ain't pleased with the motorcade

A great cloud of dust, a whoosh of excitable policemen, and a motorcade comes to a gravel-scattering halt outside my hotel here in Cartagena, in Colombia. The most awaited guest is arrived. Salman

30 Jan 09 No Comments

In Cartagena the talk is of Farc and fatwas

It’s hot, humid and yet a sea breeze blows down the narrow streets to flutter the table cloths of the pavement cafes. Cartagena is on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Yellow, pink, white, blue

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