SHOEGATE At the outset let me put the record straight, this tendency of suffixing a “gate”, after any ignominy is an American phenomena post Watergate; this of course is for the uninitiated....

At the outset, I must apologise for plagiarising the title from Stephen Spielberg, the oldies would surely recall his first contact with the aliens in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, before he introduced...

Isn’t it a strange quirk of fate to have landed me here at Ferkessoudougou, even in my dreams, one could not have heard such a tongue twister for a name. But this is what providence is all about, no? I...

Bell’s Palsy(Sometime Jun 09)I wonder how many of you are familiar with this medical mumbo-jumbo, frankly I wasn’t until of course it decided to pay me a highly unsolicited visit, one fine...