When Mr. Chevan sat in to play, he said, "My first impression was 'here's this little tenderfoot holding up his big bass.' " Mr. Byrd, a low-key African-American, towers over his hyperactive Jewish partner.
The tallest building in Enugu's Central Business District (CBD) is the African Continental Bank (ACB) tower with six stories.
Over six days we work our way gently over the range on ancient game trails that rise and fall through pristine, cathedral stands of African Fern Pine, towering Pencil Cedar and Cape Chestnut.
An arresting tower of African masks, Bidon Armé, on closer inspection turns out to be plastic canisters, in an ironic twist on a stereotype by Benin artist Romuald Hazoume, and leave a taste of the scale of wasted resources and opportunity - as do Moshekwa Langa's maps made from bin bags and tape.
On the editorial page, Jonathan Moyo, a former information minister, characterized the Movement for Democratic Change, the longstanding opposition party now sharing power with Mr. Mugabe, as a treacherous, foreign-financed entity that only now realizes that "history has been kind enough to give them the rare opportunity to work under an iconic African leader with a towering global stature".
African telecoms company Eaton Towers has raised a $350m war chest to fund expansion across the continent.
The towering new African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa was a largely welcomed $200m gift from Beijing and a clear testimony of China's intention, and ability, to engage with individual states as well as an entire continent, presenting it with new opportunities and challenges.
("South African townships. Full of tower blocks. Like Sheffield, only with sunshine").
I remember very specifically when I interviewed an older French man, he said how his father remembered seeing the first African man at the Eiffel tower and recalled seeing him as almost being a spectacle.
WINDHOEK, Namibia — It is not every day that global leaders set foot in this southern African nation of gravel roads, towering sand dunes and a mere two million people.
