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What do you retain after two and a half weeks reporting from a country you've never visited before? In my case, a jumble of impressions and images that largely defy cogent analysis. I now know what a loya jirga is and what Baluchistan, a place I'd never even heard of a fortnight ago, looks like. But ask me whether President Musharraf is going to weather the crisis in Afghanistan, or whether religious extremism in the region will intensify, and I'm struggling... click here for full report or on the brown place names on the map for previous entries.

Michela Wrong became the Africa correspondent of the Financial Times after reporting for Reuters in Rome, Paris and Abidjan. She covered the turbulent events in east, west and central Africa for six years. Her book "In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the brink of disaster in the Congo", an account of the rise and fall of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire’s corrupt dictator, won the PEN prize for non-fiction. She lives in London and is currently researching a book on the Horn of Africa.

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