Returning home to Lagos In a TED Talk called “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes what results in the false opinions we form about individuals, groups, races, cultures, religions, or places. She talks about her own life to explain how this form of tunnel vision affects our perceptions. Adichie was born…
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James Clavell was the master of historical fiction The author James Clavell was born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell in Sydney, Australia in 1921. He was the son of Commander Richard Charles Clavell, a British Royal Navy officer who was serving in Australia from 1920 to 1922. Although born in Australia, Clavell was a British national but…
Nineteen sixty-nine was a tumultuous year It was the year I started to learn how to rebel. As a teenager in Perth, the most isolated city in the world, news arrived days or weeks later than for the rest of the world. The Vietnam War was the most pressing for me because I was only a…
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In search of tranquillity, dragons and ancient aliens A one week vacation in the mountain air of Beatenberg, in the Bernese Oberland, in a charming chalet in the middle of pristine alpine meadows with an uninterrupted view of the Swiss Alps would be anyone’s idea of bliss. Then there are some remarkable facts about Beatenberg. Three…
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