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A Fresh Face in South London
ON a recent Thursday evening, Brixton Market in South London was a study in odd juxtapositions.
The daily cacophony of vendors hawking everything from Jamaican plantains to knockoff handbags was clearing out. Meanwhile, a man in a cow suit handed work sheets to a group of sophisticates clutching glasses of red wine, participants in an organized [...] -
Walking With the Herds in Kenya
I STOOD in a makeshift workshop in Njoro, a town in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, as residents assembled bows and arrows for battle. On the hay-scattered lawn, at the end of a brown dirt road past abandoned wheat fields and eerily deserted houses, an earnest young man named Samuel showed me how to [...]
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South Africa Scores!
Travel Deals – As hundreds of thousands of soccer fans pour into South Africa to watch the World Cup, we asked residents from five of the nine host cities what shouldn’t be missed. While sharing their favorite things to eat, see and do, they all agreed on a few larger truths: some streets could be [...]
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Burundi’s Freewheeling Nights
TRAVEL DEALS – AS rumors of a failed coup attempt swirled in the muggy evening air of Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, no one seemed inclined to let them dampen the mood.
This was salsa night at Le Kasuku (10 Avenue de l’Industrie; 257-22-223-731), an eclectic French- and Belgian-inspired restaurant and club. And if the day’s [...]