This is a story of travel though Africa, from one end to the other.  Largely from the 1970s and 1980s the author, a UN research ecologist and university lecturer in ecology, tells tales of life in postcolonial Malawi and Sudan and relates his anecdotal stories of travel through twelve countries of east, central and southern Africa.  Linked to extensive observations of this continent’s exotic natural history, in particular birds, he encounters bizarre and unusual experiences from being stung by a swarm of the deadly African bee, through being arrested by border guards at Kariba Dam to blowing up colonies of pest birds and free falling in a helicopter over Lake Turkana.  Personally driving most of the roads from Sudan to the Cape he stumbles upon an Eritrean terrorist camp, smuggles himself into Rhodesia, climbs the remote Mount Mulanje, communes with nomads, fights off elephants, rhinos and hyenas, and carries a rucksack of money as a wallet in present day Zimbabwe.

Duration 1 hour plus

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