Full-lung singing and the wild clapping of a hundred small hands are heard well before stepping through the tall metal gates of Jerusalem Inclusive School. In a small compound - on a cobbled back road in one of those outer suburbs of Addis that wind coolly into the Entoto foothills - students shake off the early chill with song and
Just inside Nairobi National Park - in the red dirt and quiet hour of nearly-noon in wild places - our daughter Tula stands enchanted in the company of an elephant named Sana Sana. The elephant, herself a toddler, is so close we run fingers over her paper-crinkle skin. We count her eyelashes and puffs of dust from her footsteps stain our
From ancient times - when the old merchants bartered cotton, incense and gold along the Red Sea trade winds - Ethiopia has been known for exquisite textiles and jewels. A land of shifting rocks and volcanoes, its restless earth - over centuries - forged diamonds, sapphires, opals, precious stones and yellow gold along the fissures and gorges of the great rift
