This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.