Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

I always thought that what Rajima did with those cast-off peels was a metaphor for how she dealt with her arranged marriage. She transformed those peels, with palm sugar for sweetness and tamarind for tang, into something precious.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.