Tag Archives: Colonialism

Mistah Kurtz’s latest affliction

Posted on October 21, 2014 by rustichello

For a while in the early noughties I worked in the back office of an engineering firm doing back office stuff: procurement, dispatch, marketing, web stuff, travel and tender arrangements, and so on. One of my duties was to ensure … Continue reading →

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white men write Africa

Posted on October 7, 2013 by rustichello

I went through a thing of African travel narratives a few months ago and there are some great ones. You can’t go wrong if you start with Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior of Africa.  He wanders through West Africa … Continue reading →

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Another big walk

Posted on February 7, 2011 by rustichello

Another big story I have read recently was the tale of H.M Stanley and Emin Pasha in Equatoria. What a story!! After the fall of Khartoum it was decided to leave the Southern province of the Egyptian Sudan to wither … Continue reading →

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Three Year Walk

Posted on February 7, 2011 by rustichello

I’ve read a good deal about Lewis and Clark recently and their three year tramp across the north and west of what is now the US. And there it is, Lewis and Clark introduce everything into language, describing, noting, transforming … Continue reading →

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