FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
I found the Africa I was looking for in Tanzania and Kenya recently. I found it in the briefest of eye to eye contact with a migrating zebra in the Serengeti, in the boundless energy of baby Thomson’s gazelles playfully bouncing around the open savannah, in pairs of Burchells’s zebras cozily resting their heads on each other’s backs. If you slow down and sit down and wait for it, Africa will also find you. In the unlikeliest of places. This time it was the outside terrace at Ol Seki, in the Naboisho Conservancy, just to the north of the Masai Mara. Just me, a cup of freshly brewed Earl Grey tea - and seemingly all of Africa spread out below the camp left, right and center. In the far distance, there was a small tower of three giraffes carefully plucking vegetation from high up in their own three trees. Beyond that just some bird calls. And an inquisitive rock hyrax giving me a ‘friend or foe’ look, a split second before making the wrong assumption and diving away behind a rock. Nothing that would compel me to grab a camera and record the moment for posterity. Yet everything. Nothing jarring, nothing excessive, just the way things should be. Not a vehicle or a powerline in sight.
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