ADVERTISEMENTI have often said that my worst professional mistake was leaving the clangorous world of daily newspapers for magazines and book writing. The digital era had not yet dawned, and we "hacks" - as print journalists, particularly foreign correspondents, were known - scrambled around in search of stories. We then scrambled around some more to find a post office with a telex machine to file our dispatches to our home offices. My search for stories took me to Africa, where the New York Times had posted me in the lovely Kenyan capital of Nairobi. But the past never really leaves you alone.

Source: Huffington Post September 04, 2016 21:00 UTC