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American Mingi
January 29, 2020 - Last evening I watched a program titled, "Omo Child", a documentary on the ancient practice of "mingi" by the Ethiopian...
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Fight Or Flight
October 07, 2019 - "Hatari" is the Swahili word for "danger". Danger is defined as, "the possibility of suffering harm or injury." And, per...
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Weird Peter Beard
October 03, 2019 - Artists have always been considered a bit strange, eccentric and even a bit weird. American artist, photographer and wri...
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Time For Tea
September 19, 2019 - I have never been a coffee drinker, but, when it comes to tea, I could probably drink my weight in the stuff. Of course,...
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Palace Of The Lost City
September 16, 2019 - I was as giggly as a child going to Disneyland when I discovered this place. It's just a hotel, right? Yes, but, it's no...
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Romance And Adventure
September 11, 2019 - While other kids read the detective and mystery collections of the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marpl...
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Spirit Of Africa
September 06, 2019 - Who doesn't love an airplane with giraffe spots? And, not only an airplane, but, a boat that can land on the water!! Thi...
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I Had A Farm In Africa...
September 04, 2019 - In 1985 a film was released titled, Out of Africa, an American epic romantic drama, directed and produced by Sydney Poll...
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Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
September 03, 2019 - Henry Morton Stanley was dispatched by the New York Herald newspaper in 1869 to find the lost missionary, Dr. David Livi...
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The Big Five
August 29, 2019 - If you have ever booked a safari, you know to what the term, The Big Five, refers. The phrase was originally coined by e...
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The Roots Of Africa
August 23, 2019 - For years I have studied the animals of Africa, always intrigued with the amazing array of spots, stripes, horns and tus...
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Osa's Ark Takes Flight
August 21, 2019 - A few years ago I had the privilege to drive out to Kansas to visit an unusual museum, The Martin and Osa Johnson Safari...
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Me, Tarzan...You, Jane
August 20, 2019 - I talk a lot about one's God-given purpose in life. The Bible states, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; an...
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An African Love Story
August 16, 2019 - I believe that once our lives on Earth are complete, a legacy should be left behind, a sort of mantle like that that fel...
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Jumbo The Elephant
August 13, 2019 - It seems that we have lost our sense of wonder and amazement these days. One of my goals in writing this daily blog is t...
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Raising Daisy Rothschild
August 12, 2019 - One of the most sacred tasks we have as humans is to care for the world we live in and the inhabitants that surround us.
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Serengeti Darf Nicht Sterben
August 11, 2019 - Professor Bernhard Grzimek was born April 24, 1909 in Prussian Silesia. He studied veterinary medicine for which he rece...
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The Great Migration
August 06, 2019 - Each year at this time, an incredible event takes place on the African savannas of Tanzania and Kenya, a vast movement o...
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Maasai Creed
August 04, 2019 - In 1960 Christian missionaries met with leaders of the African Maasai tribe in an effort to develop a standard that coul...
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Born Free Revisited
August 02, 2019 - One of my earliest memories was getting to see the movie Born Free, a movie depicting the lives of George and Joy Adamso...
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Safari Evening
August 01, 2019 - Years ago I found this story by Greg Sharam on kopjes. For the novice explorer a "kopje", pronounced like "copy", is a g...
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