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Daniel arap Moi, president of Kenya in 1993, personally made Dr Richard Leakey an Elder of the Burning Spear, Kenya's highest honour, for his contribution to conservation including his successful [...]

It is not often that you meet a San (or in colonial language, a Bushman) in Savile Row in Central London, the home of the finest tailoring in all of [...]

Dame Jane Goodall, the British primatologist and world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, lived for 30 years in the wilds of the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Nobody knows chimpanzees better [...]

Nick Hordern on the life and death of the great African-American civil rights leader, Medgar Evers (photo below), who was assassinated in June 1963. Hordern went to California to interview [...]

'Kilwa is amongst the most beautiful of cities, and elegantly built,' wrote Ibn Battuta, the great Moroccan-Berber traveller in 1331. Our correspondent, Nick Hordern, in a pale imitation of Ibn [...]

Is Blood Diamond a gem of a film--or a critical flashpoint for the jewellery industry's provenance record? Hollywood seems on a run of setting movies in Africa with a moral [...]

Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), at 52,000 sq kms, is one of the world's largest conservation areas. It was set up in 1961 to safeguard the Kalahari ecosystem and [...]

Continuing his journey around Africa in search of history before the white man, Nick Hordern, the British historian and journalist (see NA, Jan 2003), recently visited the ruins of Gedi, [...]

It took all my courage to approach Sir Bob Geldof, even at a London party. After all, he had once called a notorious Horn of Africa factional leader 'a f--k', [...]

Britain's king-in-waiting was recently painted black, just to see how the future monarch would look in black skin as head of the Commonwealth. Nick Hordern went to meet the Russian-born [...]