Brazilian carnival: a talent for happiness?
Thursday Arrive in Recife in north Brazil. A Brazilian woman who must be pushing 80 wearing a gold dress and diamante headdress on her way to a carnival rehearsal flashes me a glorious smile outside my...
View ArticleFes Festival – Spiritual but funky
Weds I’m sitting on the roof of Ibrahim Tijani’s house in the ancient Fes Medina, there’s an almost full moon and the muezzin is blasting out a distorted Allar Akbar, God Is Great. Ibrahim is a leading...
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