For five days, the only words on our lips were, we are Africa. Like a quixotic mantra, we repeated it in conversations, WhatsApps, Instaposts, across our bags and books, across stadiums and wine farm podiums. For the week of We Are Africa, held in […]
A Community of Chefs ~ From Namibia to Mauritius
“Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.” – Michael Pollan There are more people that make up the community of food than you could […]
The Foraging Flâneur – The Charm of a Giraffe Named Oscar
There was talk of a tall, handsome man about town roaming the wilderness of Epako Safari Lodge in Omaruru, Namibia, where we found ourselves one April afternoon. The man went by the name of Oscar. Oscar Wilde in the wild. Yet, he was in […]
I Still Remember You After All These Years ~ Oh, Kenya…
The Call of the Wild I remember a lot about our time together. Kenya and I. The places she took me, the nights under the stars, the quiet of her expanse in the Chyulu Hills and the energy of her wildness in the Maasai Mara. […]
A Philosophy of Wellness in the Okavango Wild
The Wellness Safari “There is a saying in Botswana; ‘Botho’ – which is a catch-all for ‘respect and caring.’ If we hang everything on being caring it negates us doing anything that is damaging,” Dereck Joubert told us in our Find the Others interview, in answer to how […]