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Zimbabwean Barnstar of National Merit | |
| For dedicated work to topics related to Zimbabwe, especially the Collaboration and the Pioneer Column Awarded for contribution to WP:ZIM by Mangwanani 17:20, 4 November 2007 (UTC) |
About me
editMy main field of expertise is science particularly chemistry in which I got a PhD in 1996 at the grand old age of 28.
I am also very interested in history,(especially military and religious history), geography (especially countries and climates) and astronomy. I lived in several countries in Africa whilst growing up and I have travelled around a big chunk of the world centred on Europe.
- The furthest west I have been is: Albuquerque in south-western USA.
- The furthest north I have been is: Cape Wrath at the north-west edge of Great Britain.
- The furthest east I have been is: Semporna in eastern Borneo (Sabah).
- The furthest south I have been is: Wild Coast in the former Transkei of South Africa.
I started editing Wikipedia in the September 2007 because I think it is a great concept, and a source of endless fascination — also a cure for insomnia (sometimes). I love unexpected details and I really don't like partiality and articles that pretend to be innocently informative when they are disguises for someone's pet prejudices and most of all I look out for articles that reflect fashionable conventional wisdom and ignore awkward or inconvenient truths.(Sorry — no pun intended there!)
I came to the UK after I finished university and my first job in London was [wait for it] with an encyclopedia publishing company! Outside of Wikipedia, my interests are primarily in playing (but not following) sport like tennis and basketball and above all—all kinds of music.
35 countries
- Four state of USA, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba and Netherlands Antilles (now split into Curacao and Bonaire) in the Americas.
Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Madagascar and Mauritius in the Africa/Indian Ocean. Ireland, the UK, Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Italy & Vatican, Czech, Malta and Greece in Europe. Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan in western Asia. Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand in south-east Asia.