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Оглавление - Colours of Africa: painting a new self
- Prologue: Where did all this come from?
- Chapter 1. Turquoise: The Power of Creativity
- One-way Ticket to Africa
- Goats and Papayas
- A Tin Can and a Green Ocean
- How Seaweed Started a Revolution
- What is Afro-Soul?
- Sounds of Wisdom
- Scrounging a Flute from the Military
- African Hostel and Its Wounded Souls
- Josh and His Australian Escape
- A Computer Expert with Farming Aspirations
- A Paramedic in Disguise
- A French Lady from Ethiopia
- A Fence Made of Palm Leaves
- Stone Town and Its Cultural Blends
- How Can I Get to the Ocean?
- What is Taarab?
- Those Damn Red Pins
- Chapter 2: The Leap into the Unknown
- Kalimba Under the Danish Flag
- Danish Business in Post-USSR
- The Point of No Return
- Time To Say Goodbye
- Newly Acquired Freedom
- How the Fear Sets In
- Black Void
- Lead Me by the Hand
- Exploring Myself
- Inner Harmony
- Dialogue with a Coach
- Happiness Culture
- Fly Away
- That Letter from the Future
- What Was It?
- Chapter 3: Orange: The Power of Fearless Curiosity
- Simba, Pumbaa, and Other Perils
- Serenade of Hippos
- The Effect of Those Red Pins
- “Save Your Neighbour”
- The Bridge Which Got Washed Away
- A Talking Rock and Chief Mkwawa’s Head
- Malaria Misadventures
- “Our Father” in Swahili
- Saint Matrona of Moscow in Dar-es-Salaam?
- The Point of Weariness
- Snow on the Equator
- Initiation by a Tsetse Fly
- A Maasai Girl in the Trunk
- Asante
- Chapter 4: Striped: Another Africa
- The Edge of the World
- Why Cape Town?
- African Nice
- The Waterfront Promenade
- Floating Salad and Cops in the Bushes
- The Table-Like Mountain
- A Riot of Colours
- What Is a “Township?”
- 5400 km to Antarctica
- The Cancelled Flight
- The Countess and a Plate of Hake
- The Pink Waves of Kalk Bay
- The Escape
- Like An Eagle
- An Australian, an Englishman, and a Great Dane
- Invitation to a Castle
- Cut Off from the World
- Ocean View
- Treacherous Clooney
- Escaping from a Convent
- What do I know now?
- Chapter 5: Purple: Where the Heart Leads
- Back Home Again
- After the Dance
- Empty Spaces in My Notebook
- My Empty Mind
- Awakening
- What is Dance Therapy?
- Naming the Unfamiliar
- Fearless Souls under the Lens
- Releasing the Idea into the World
- Take me to Africa!
- “Heart of Tanzania”
- “Ocean and Music”
- I have my own designer!
- Pregnant with Seven Babies
- Clean language and Flying Trees
- A Jack-of-all-trades
- Chapter 6: Red: Reconnaissance in Force
- Africa, here I come again!
- Orthodox Miracles
- The Story of One Vestment
- The Tour Gone Awry
- All is fine but change it please
- Monkeying Around
- Lying Flat
- An Indian Clinic with the Russian Emblem
- Too Complicated?
- Chapter 7. Green: Something to rely on
- Learning from Mistakes
- A Russian textbook in a souvenir shop
- What are my Options?
- “Vacuum Cleaner” Operation
- Driver’s permit quest
- The Birth of a Band
- May Zanzibar’s glory be with us!
- Washing Machine and Alfredo
- No ticket. No cards. No money
- Finding a way out
- Off we go!
- A Mzungu in the Village
- A Princess with a Basin
- The End of an Epoch
- The Sounds of Gospel
- Help from Around the World
- What I Learned
- Chapter 8. Yellow: Back to Origins
- New Flower
- A Lady with Dogs
- Dancing Letters
- French Election Day
- People in White and Queen of Sheba
- The Unexpected link to Jamaica
- Lucy and Pushkin
- Three worlds I didn’t get to see
- What’s next?
- “New Breath”
- Back on a Flagship
- Summing it up
- So why go to Africa?
- Valuable Thoughts, or Maybe Not-So