World Bank building, Asmara (all images, courtesy of the author) Asmara is itself a giant monument to colonial folly. When it comes to architecture, the Italians simply lost their heads. —Michela ...

But emigration, death and revolution have changed all of that. Now Mr Cohen is the last Jew native to Asmara still in the city. He looks after both the synagogue and the cemetery because there is ...

A capital city has become known as 'little Rome' or the 'Rome of Africa' due to its architecture and history. Asmara is the capital city of Eritrea, a small country in eastern Africa that borders ...