Before Dolly, few women had chosen to journey through Africa, much of which was still little-known, and she became particularly known for her exploration in West Africa, becoming the first English ...

That most “desert” of deserts? Why, that would have to be Mali, where you find Timbuktu, the fabled Niger River, the mud mosques of Djenne and the salt trains of the Sahara. I once had the ...

Timbuktu will deserve a prominent place on that list. About 10 years ago, we at Uncut started a collaboration with our friends at NME to release a series ...