Selina Denman charts the story of this part of East Africa--where African, Arab and European influences merge--as well as her own chapter in it.

violet jacaranda trees and reddish-brown soil. I wanted some magic and some realism, and teen girls with too much eye makeup.

Located in the gorgeous Algarve region of Portugal, Lagos is a town of colours: golden cliffs, azure sky, violet Jacaranda trees, whitewashed buildings ... Lamu, a preserved Swahili settlement, is ...

Gor Mahia captain Austin Oduor ‘Makamu’ (left) is handed the Moi Golden Cup by Sports Minister Henry Kosgey (right) as KFF ...

In the classic Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel, ‘Crime and Punishment,’ there is the immortal line “the darker the night – the ...

It is jacaranda season in Pretoria but here and there you might see a beautiful purple blooming tree that looks like the iconic Pretoria tree but at a closer look there appear to be a few differences.

But as people flock to suburbs and towns across the country known for an abundance of jacaranda trees, very few appear aware of their potentially harmful nature. The signature tree has become ...

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on Kenya’s Eldoret-Iten Water Fund. Part 1 is available here. Two years into the program, ...

What makes Goombungee special is a median strip on the town’s main street, lined with Jacaranda trees, which by early November means the road is carpeted in purple. On November 2, the Rosalie ...

As Sydney poet Warren Paul Glover walked his dogs under jacaranda trees, he couldn’t shake the imagery of the spent flowers left on the ground. Those images inspired his poem Jacaranda Season.