On safari the day starts early. Even before the first light begins to filter through the canvas, the dawn chorus is already in full swing – francolins, robin chats, and an Africa ...

Africa is big sky country. How could it be otherwise in a continent of such endless distance, where the plains stretch out to the ends of the earth as it rolls through space to gre ...

Recently I have been thinking a lot about the influences in my life. There are the obvious ones: grandparents, parents, siblings, wife, children, aunts and uncles, cousins (they ea ...

Two faces “What does Africa mean to me? It’s summed up in the word serendipity, which has been defined as ‘finding pleasing things that one had not been looking for’. Afric ...

HOW COULD YOU TIRE OF THIS? NANCY MCDANIEL, USA Some people wonder why I go back to the African bush ever year. “Don’t you see the same things,” they ask? “No.” Having be ...

In Legacy of Love, a new 328-page coffee table book that hopes to raise awareness and funds for conservation, more than 50 leading animal charity founders, artists, photographers a ...

African food is both diverse and delicious, and introducing yourself to new dishes not only expands the palette but creates memories just as much as visiting historic landmarks or ...

To acquire a PhD, the old joke goes, you must learn more and more about less and less. To me, this says as much about academia’s obsession with specificity as it does about the h ...

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One of the unheralded pleasures of an African road trip is chatting to the lads, ladies and sometimes old folk who operate the petrol pumps. It’s always fun, and on occasion thou ...