Continent: Africa
Africa, to me, has mostly been a long coastline seen from a plane I never boarded. For now it holds a single city and the rest is rumour — the African places I have only ever reached in imagination.
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Marrakech
I have wanted to walk into the great square at Marrakech at dusk and learn how much of a city a photograph leaves out — its smoke, drums and heat.
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Cairo
I have wanted to stand at the foot of Cairo’s pyramids and feel how small a life is beside a thing that has outlasted every empire that came to gawp.
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Cape Town
Cape Town is one of the few places I was offered not just to visit but to work in — and let go. I keep a receipt for this particular longing.
