How does one find out about the real Africa?
In the media, Africa may be popularly known for its poverty, environmental degradation, wars and the current HIV/AIDS epidemic among others but this could be said for any continent today. But Africa is modernising, ready to take its place in the world with massive growth and investments from all over the world. The trade routes dreamed of by Cecil John Rhodes and David Livingstone are becoming reality today. This question still remains a mystery. Many travellers are afraid to travel to Africa because of the way it is dramatised in the media – wars, poverty, disease, and so on. So I ask this questions to my clients during Safari adventures with them but none of them seem to have an appropriate answer, and that always puts me to puzzling thinking. If you were to believe all the negative stories in the media, be it newspapers, internet or television, then Africa would be the last place you would think of visiting to see beauty and harmony. I reflect on the old days of great explorers such
