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In Gabon, a disenchanted journalist embarks on a hallucinogenic tribal rite.
By Daniel Pinchbeck
November 3, 1999
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Like Hawking, Goodall has been elevated to the status of sage, but does knowledge of the wild beast really imply knowledge of the human heart and soul?
By Susan McCarthy
October 27, 1999
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An exhaustive history of HIV and AIDS offers a bold new theory about its origins
By Edward Hooper
October 6, 1999
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For a Western woman, waiting on a rainy day at a matatu stand illuminates some inescapable truths.
By Alicia Rebensdorf
September 29, 1999
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Wherein the author travels back in time to encounter "Morris" as he brushes up against "Reagan" -- and the rest is "history."
By David Corn
September 28, 1999
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I was invincible in Africa -- until the mosquitoes got me.
By Tanya Shaffer
August 14, 1999
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Why do so many travel books about the continent start the same way?
By Wendy Belcher
July 28, 1999
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A simple succession of events in an African village
leads to a tragedy -- and a traveler's haunting sense of hopelessness.
By Tanya Shaffer
February 23, 1999
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Jeffrey Tayler describes a death-defying bus adventure across Nigeria.
By Jeffrey Tayler
December 30, 1998
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A simple request forces a Western woman to face her prejudices.
By Tanya Shaffer
December 11, 1998
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An eye-opening portfolio of photographs by Robert Lyons and a searing, incisive essay by Chinua Achebe illuminate Africa beyond the stereotypes and cliches.
By Chinua Achebe
October 30, 1998
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Wanderlust editor Don George talks with Francesca Marciano, author of the evocative and provocative new novel about Kenya, 'Rules of the Wild.'
By Don George
October 9, 1998
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In an excerpt from her first novel, "Rules of the Wild,"
Francesca Marciano portrays the seductive subculture of whites in Kenya -- and
the addicting allure of Africa's vastness.
By Francesca Marciano
October 8, 1998
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On a family safari in Kenya, David Kravitz discovers that it takes an elephant-lion standoff to penetrate the blasi shell of his teenage daughter.
By David Kravitz
October 6, 1998
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Eric Seyfarth runs with the Hadza, Tanzania's Stone Age tribe that represents a living link to our earliest ancestors.
By Eric Seyfarth
August 30, 1998
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Frequent traveler Maryalicia Post discovers what flying is really about -- journeying to Mount Kenya in a reproduction 1935 open-cockpit plane.
By Maryalicia Post
August 6, 1998
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Rajiv Rao's safari in Tanzania was spectacular, until he had to answer nature's call in the middle of the night -- and discovered that lions had surrounded the outhouse.
By Rajiv Rao
July 10, 1998
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Africa Fete, a tour of Africa's biggest pop stars, becomes the biggest musical bargain in America.
By Jonathan Curiel
June 24, 1998
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Two women find that to see a fetish priest in Ghana, they have to bring a lot of money -- and take off their tops.
By Tanya Shaffer
June 4, 1998
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Senegal turns against the tyranny of female genital mutilation.
By Vivienne Walt
June 3, 1998
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John M. Edwards visits a monument to megalomania in West Africa: The Ivory Coast's Yamoussoukro, city of Parisian-style boulevards, empty eight-lane highways and Christendom's tallest church -- all of it
dead-ending in jungle.
By John M. Edwards
May 5, 1998
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A filmmaker learns a lesson about giving from three small children in the heart of West Africa By Kevin Kertscher.
By Kevin Kertscher
April 23, 1998
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Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
By J. Poet
April 8, 1998
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Craig Bromberg reports from the finale of the Paris-Dakar Rally, a grueling 17-day road race that weaves through wadis and sand dunes and grenade-wielding Tuareg rebels.
By Craig Bromberg
March 31, 1998
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In Kenya, Don Meredith encounters the last of the great white hunters -- and learns all about Cape buffalo and Ava Gardner.
By Don Meredith
March 19, 1998
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