Geoffrey Clarfield

Geoffrey Clarfield is a Toronto-based musician and anthropologist.

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Remembering Richard Leakey (1944–2022), the Last Victorian Scientist

While he may have seemed like something of an (enormously) overachieving dilettante to some, there was in fact a unity to his life and work.

Geoffrey Clarfield

10 Jan 2022 · 11 min read

Remembering My Friend Peter Beard

Peter is no longer here to tell us the truth of the matter.

Geoffrey Clarfield

28 May 2020 · 8 min read

Understanding Modern African Horrors by Way of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade

The modernizing elites of these groups then fought with the British during WWI and WWII, and demanded independence after the war, which they got.

Geoffrey Clarfield

6 Feb 2019 · 7 min read

Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras

With the release of their extraordinary documentary film The Rescue, Alvaro and his younger brother Boris haven’t just faced up to their clan’s history. They have turned it into high art.

Geoffrey Clarfield

11 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

Barefoot Over the Serengeti: A Visit with David Read

Having lived and worked in rural East Africa for 16 years, I find that Read’s stories ring true, whereas Hemingway’s ring hollow.

Geoffrey Clarfield

14 Sep 2018 · 12 min read