Hints and tips:
...Alongside me in the back is Fernando Rivera, an immaculately turned out guide from Cartagena....
...In the middle of August, I’m the first journalist to check in....
...Right now, I’m planning a TV show about the story of William Henry Savage, an ancestor of mine. He was the first black lawyer in the UK, and he became the King’s Advocate for Sierra Leone....
...At one of the stops while Jose wrangles the crowd I'm allowed access to the engine to talk to engineer Victor Gomez....
...“That’s what I’m talking about: a new Gambia,” shouted Matarr, a 32-year-old. Gambia is not the only country to have defied the odds....
...But he incited outrage by trying to cut off questions, after, he later said, having been awake for 40 hours, with the gaffe: “Enough, I’m tired.”...
...“I’m staying on,” he says. “I want to see that all those sacrifices made by those gallant people haven’t been in vain.” Then he adds, with a dashing smile: “Wouldn’t you?”...
...Victor Mallet is the FT’s Madrid bureau chief...
...As a stage director, “I’m joining my three passions – cinema, theatre and music,” he says....
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