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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 (Two months earlier)
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