: About Me

I was born in South Africa, and have travelled extensively in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as living for extended periods of time in Europe and North America. Australia has been home for the past 15 years, where I work as an academic at a university.
Much of an academic's life is reading and writing and, fortunately, these are two activities that I greatly enjoy. Being able to write more creatively, however, and on topics outside of academia, is wonderfully refreshing and entertaining.

My passion is ...

living

I know too much about ...

information behaviour

My parents always told me ...

no experience is ever wasted.

My childhood ambition ...

was to fly.

My favorite memory ...

is of the beach in the summer

Why I write ...

I love playing with words and expressing myself in different ways

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Mozart; Lost; People of the Book

My first job ...

was a stock control clerk in a catering business

My best moment ...

was my daughter's first smile

My inspiration ...

is my mother

Society & Lifestyle > African & Middle Eastern Culture Foreign aid as a deterrent to African economic growth

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In the 1970s, I remember seeing John Deere tractors rusting in the middle of farmlands in Lesotho. A couple more nestled up to the walls of the local chief's kraal, providing a useful, if expensive, chicken shed. At the same time, I met many youngsters from the United States, who, with great enthusiasm and energy, belonged to the Peace Corps, and were doing a number of jobs to help the situation of the local communities. China was also investing in various factories, involving light industry. All of these phenomena were different expressions of the ways in which the Minority World, at indi...

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