Gold Magazine February - March 2013, Issue 23 | Page 100

Seeing Stars
and Hearing
Silence

THE LAST
WORD

Memories of Greece,
America and Africa

By Peter Economides

I worked with someone. An Italian. He
had a name for me. “The Greek American
Zulu”. This was a reference to the most
important places and cultures that have
influenced me.
Greek: My origins, my DNA, the essence
of who I am.
And Greece. This crazy unpredictable
country that I have now chosen as home.
Beautiful Greece.
American: Because of my years working
in the world’s largest American advertising
agencies with some of the world’s largest
American brands. And my time in that
wonderful city called New York.
Zulu: South Africa. Where I was born and
where I grew up. The place I called home
for so many years and the place I still go
home to every year. Religiously. Without
fail. And not just because my mother, my
brother and my sister live there.
I go to visit places with names such as
Okavango, Mashatu, Phinda, Hluhluwe,
Mtunzin