Absolute power
I used a wad of Sierra Leone currency as big as a roll of lavatory paper to buy a seat on the Russian chopper that takes passengers from Lungi airport across the lagoon to Freetown. Seconds before takeoff, a horde of fare-dodging ...
Zanzibar
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Zanzibar blackout to last six more weeks: minister
Zanzibar's energy minister said Friday that a month-long power blackout would last six more weeks, amid mounting criticism of the government over a ...
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Month-long power outage threatens Zanzibar tourism
A month-long power blackout in Tanzania's semi-autonomous Zanzibar is threatening the idyllic Indian Ocean island's tourist industry, officials said Tuesday. The archipelago's main ...
Anti-picturesque
In Competition No. 2388 you were invited to offer a poem expressing aversion to an object or person popularly regarded as picturesque. Is it ironical, a fool enigma, This sunset show?. . . Is it a mammoth joke?. . . These unconventional ...
