Author Archive
Ethiopia – Harar
by Barbara on Mar.15, 2010, under Published Travel Articles
OBEISANCE’S TO ARTHUR
Horizons (British Airways) September 2010 (runner up winner in travel writing competition)
Selamta (Ethiopian Airways) July 2010
‘I left my life behind to catch a glimpse of life’ Arthur Rimbaud (continue reading…)
Danakil Depression – Ethiopia
by Barbara on Mar.15, 2010, under Published Travel Articles
A VOLCANIC BIRTHDAY (For Marek Bozalek)
Selamta Magazine (Ethiopian Airways) January 2011
It is the second of November 2009; today is my birthday, today I turn sixty. (continue reading…)
END – Barbara Adair & the Wow Factor – Fred de Vries, Empire, July 2008
by Barbara on Aug.26, 2009, under END
A case of commercial suicide? Barbara Adair’s second novel, End, uses the story of the 1942 movie Casablanca, but situates it in the Mozambique and Johannesburg of the late 80s, with odd references to Hector Pieterson, cell phones, Nigerians in Hillbrow and the Rosebank Hotel as a hangout for rightwing extremist where a black pianist plays Nkosi sikelel iAfrika.
“Will it have a wow finish?” asks the front cover. Well, it ends somewhere in Mozambique with Princess Di in a blue Versace dress being shot and killed. (continue reading…)
