FEAST OR FAMINE

The MAY 2018 NEWSLETTER is available free for  download. Readers can access the Newsletter at http://www.martinanicolls.net The feature for May 2018  is: BLUE MONKEY 32 pages includes topics such as: Primates Sykes’ Blue Monkey Other Monkeys Vervet Monkey Colobus Monkey Barbary Macaque Maps Lots of Photographs MARTINA NICOLLS http://www.martinanicolls.net http://martinasblogs.blogspot.com https://www.facebook.com/Martina-Nicolls- მარტინა - ნიკოლსი -1450496988529988/timeline/ MARTINA NICOLLS   is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom   (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Hiding in Plain Sight (2015) is set in Kenya in contemporary times, written by the acclaimed Somali author Nuruddin Farah. Somali-born international fashion photographer Bella, is living in Rome when she learns of the death of her brother Aar in Somalia in a terrorist attack.  Aar has two teenage children in Nairobi, Kenya, abandonned by his wife Valerie years previously: son Salif and daughter Dahaba. Bella travels to Kenya to help her niece and nephew – basically, to become their substitute parents.   Salif believes that the death of a father is the making of a son. Does he really believe this or is this his brave facade? Is it his unmaking? And what of his younger sister Dahaba – is it his duty to protect her? And what is aunt Bella’s role, who has now come to live with them? Dahaba is no pushover. She is wilful and intelligent. How does she cope with her father’s death? But it is not just the three of them – Bella, Salif, and Dahaba. Aar al...

https://similarbutdifferentanimals.com/2018/04/29/cheetah/ https://similarbutdifferentanimals.com/2018/04/29/cheetah-and-leopard-similarities-and-differences/ MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Australian sprinter Peter Norman has finally been recognized for his athletic achievement after 50 years of ostracism. Norman stood in solidarity with two American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, as they made their iconic black power protest at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said on 28 April 2018 that they had awarded a posthumous Order of Merit (OM) to Peter Norman, whose Australian record for the 200-meter race still stands 50 years later. Norman, who died in 2006, did not compete in another Olympic Games. His family claimed he wasn't selected despite qualifying. The AOC denied any suggestions that Norman was ostracized or "blacklisted" for supporting Smith and Carlos during their podium protest. In 2012, an Australian federal lawmaker called on the government to extend Norman a posthumous national apology and recognition. The AOC on 28 April highlighted Norman's setting of the Australian record (20.06 sec...

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein (2018) is a biography of the British novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), author of the 1818 Gothic novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.   The first edition of Frankenstein was published on 1 January 1818 anonymously, when Mary was 20 years old. Her name appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823, a year after the death of her husband Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.   This year marks the 200 th anniversary of the novel that spawned the famous monster – a corpse reanimated.  Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was 19 years old. How could a young girl write such a dark novel that spurned a series of Frankenstein movies and monster themes for the next 200 years? Mary’s mother Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin was the author of controversial and radical literature of women’s rights, and her father William Godwin was an anarchist, atheist, and util...

https://similarbutdifferentanimals.com/2018/02/16/how-do-giraffes-sit-down/ MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).