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Fabric hunting in West Africa
You can find great fabrics all over Africa. Kenya and Tanzania are known for their colourful wrappers: kanga for women and kikoy for men. Mozambique has its capulana. Ethiopian women wrap themselves in white cotton natellas, while men wear...
Q&A: Elias Aryanyijuka
Elias Aryanyijuka represents a generation of young Ugandans driving their tourism sector. An energetic and passionate operator, who founded Home to Africa Tours and Travel, we set out to find out what fires his enthusiasm. When did...
Being John Banovich
Eleanor Bonsor gets inside the head of the world-renowned wildlife artist and conservationist, John Banovich What do you aim to convey through your art? My work is about creating a visceral connection to my subject’s world or...
Worms and Walkie-Talkies
Here are my top three worst dishes that I have eaten whilst overseas: third place goes to a goat’s head (brains and all), second place to a fruit bat, and first place to a mopane worm. The mopane worm,...
Talking about Art Safari
Mary-Ann Bartlett tells us about her unique adventure travel company, Art Safari, where art, exploration and huge amounts of inspiration are combined to create a very special experience for beginners and experienced artists alike You set up...
The lioness nearly ate my bacon
Mana Pools, in Zimbabwe, is an extraordinary place, and I would certainly classify it as one of the true wildernesses of Africa. I suppose that I have a great affinity for this place as this was my first experience...
Visions of Zambia
In collaboration with the sight charity Orbis, UK artist Tim Benson recently held an exhibition entitled ‘Visions of Zambia’, at the Mall Galleries in London, which featured 20 oil paintings created after a trip to Kitwe Hospital...
Feeding baby rhinos
There was a snuffling, snorting, and mewing sound as the two baby rhinos anticipated their midnight feed. I was a bit blurry-eyed as I staggered downstairs to prepare their formula milk. I imagined it was like feeding human babies,...
Cape Town to Nairobi by tuk-tuk — and back again
Calum Buckmaster and Willie Badenhorst have challenged themselves to break the African record for the longest cross-country distance travelled in a tuk-tuk, which is more than 13000km. Here, Calum tells Eleanor Bonsor about how the journey has...
Fifty years free
Co-founder of the Born Free Foundation Virginia McKenna OBE tells Paul Seligman why, 50 years on, she is still fighting the unethical treatment of African wildlife How did the Born Free Foundation come into being? In 1968...
Buffalo ambush
While I was working in Zimbabwe, I had the opportunity to visit Bumi Hills in 1993, a fantastic lodge up on the edge of Lake Kariba with views to die for. I was working in Save Valley Conservancy and...
Meet the artist: Alison Nicholls
With her art embracing Africa's mystique, Alison Nicholls sparks the imagination by showing the continent's famous animals in a new light You’ve recently come back from a trip to Africa – can you tell us about the...
Hide and seek: the evolution of a lodge
The Hide, in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, has recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. One of Travel Africa’s original advertisers, it is a prime example of how a lodge has evolved over the years to reflect the changing needs of...
Trapped by wildlife
It was a typical morning in Africa with Karen. We had risen with the sun, been down to check the hippos that Karen was studying, and were back at the house by breakfast time. I call her place a...
Meet the artist: David Filer
Henry Bevan talks to Zimbabwean artist David Filer about his art process and how animals are better company than people What is it about animals that makes them interesting to sketch? Growing up in Zimbabwe, I have...
A fine art
Wildlife artist Leon Fouche talks to Henry Bevan about growing up in the bush, and the inspirations for his paintings. Where does your inspiration come from? Africa’s amazing wildlife is what inspires me to draw. I spend...
Ten new book releases
Here’s some new reading matter to feed your interest in Africa over the coming months, compiled by Henry Bevan Eyes Over Africa Michael Poliza (31 July 2017) From deserts to cities to grasslands, let your imagination be captured by...
A Cheetah’s Tale
We’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading HRH Princess Michael of Kent’s account of rearing (and releasing to the wild) a cheetah cub, ‘Tess’, when a teenager living in Mozambique. Through her delightful personal story, the book also gives a great insight...
The Wildlife Defenders
Alice Roberts spoke to Michael and Harrison Cooney about their recent project, which tells the story, through photographs, of the men and women who have devoted their lives to the war against poaching “I feel we all have our...
How to create a game reserve
The changing face of safaris over the past 20 years is epitomised by Nambiti Private Game Reserve in South Africa, which is a prime example of how tourism plays an integral part in conservation. Phil Clisby reports The old...
