Bishop Tutu Urges Peace in Lesotho -- But Will the Leaders Listen?
Political violence has flared ahead of May 26 Lesotho elections, but Archbishop Desmond Tutu urges candidates to keep the peace and respect election results.
MASERU, Lesotho – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the legendary anti-Apartheid activist and Nobel laureate, is officially retired from public life.
Peek into the HIV-Scarred Lives of Young Africans
MASERU, Lesotho – The email arrived on the eve of a journalism workshop I’d lead at Kick4Life, an NGO that promotes sport and HIV awareness in a country with the world’s third-highest rate of HIV infection.
"The Help" ... Lesotho-Style
MASERU, Lesotho – Living overseas, I sometimes fall out of touch with the latest “buzz” within American culture. Like which Hollywood sleepers are garnering acclaim from the critics.
Sesotho: Both Bridge and Defense
MASERU, Lesotho – I’ve written before about my struggles to learn the language of countries where I’ve lived, be it my horrid Hungarian, survival Slovak or café Cantonese.
It's a National Geographic Life
MASERU, Lesotho – There’s so much to say, I don’t know where to start. So how about with a Sesotho-language greeting: Dumela!
Dispatches from Lesotho Pt. 1
Lesotho is a small, landlocked mountain kingdom in the beginnings of Winter. About 7,500 feet up in the small village of Mount Moorosi in the district of Quthing, a few major changes have arrived since my last visit in 2006: water, electricity, the possibility of obtaining access to internet; those things which so many of us in the States take for granted. The last time I stayed here was as a US Peace Corps teacher of English at Maseribane High School, then later as a visitor from Cape Town.
