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First Blood…..Sidindi Island (Part 5)
I can remember walking past palm trees and what looked like sea sand as we followed Don back down to wherever he had come from…..the Zambezi flowing smoothly on my right hand side….gurglin… more →
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Desert Island Discs.........your thoughts please?
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wrote 1 day ago: Try as I might the notion of music playing in the house all day generally brings me out in hives, it … more →
British Colonies and South Africa
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wrote 6 days ago: The British decolonizing process was more haphazard and often more African-driven in its initiatives … more →
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. Gilbert K. Chesterton
wrote 1 week ago: How to make friends and oppress people : classic travel advice for the gentleman adventurer New York … more →
The President and I
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wrote 1 week ago: I have been to San Clemente. It is a few miles north of San Diego in Southern California. An old sch … more →
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
wrote 2 weeks ago: “I lie with my arms over the cat, awake and waiting. African dawn, noisy with animals and the … more →
Sir Rodigan Meets Marley
wrote 1 month ago: In 1980, English radio DJ and self-described reggae junky David Rodigan interviews Bob Marley upon h … more →
Africa, why I love you...
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wrote 1 month ago: I love Africa, it’s in my bones and it’s in my blood. Living in city isn’t good for me, but we have … more →
what she knew of gods
wrote 1 month ago: she could not see beyond the ties which bound her to this place: the crystal blue of pool water, the … more →
Blue The Rhodesian by Beth Edwards
wrote 1 month ago: The Ridgeback is an agile dog, powerful and speedy. His original purpose in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) … more →
New Books Network - "Catastrophe: what went wrong in Zimbabwe?"
wrote 1 month ago: Much of the literature on modern Africa makes the unhappy comparison between hopes, especially upon … more →
What's happening in Special Operations this week:
wrote 2 months ago: Check out the hostage rescue track record for the British SAS and SBS. Read about the history of Spe … more →
Thoughts from a Boeing ... and another skirt tale
wrote 2 months ago: I am no good at watching movies on planes – so this time, as we pulled up and away from the be … more →
Take it Decently
wrote 2 months ago: The remark that did most harm at the club was a silly aside to the effect that the so-called white r … more →
J. Ross Baughman | Rhodesia
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wrote 2 months ago: Here at IP, I am devoted to providing accurate and informative backstories about iconic photos, but … more →
The end of the year 2011
wrote 2 months ago: It was the 31st of December 2011. We woke up early in the morning since there were so many things to … more →
The Steaming Complaint of the Resting Beast
wrote 2 months ago: The Steaming Complaint of the Resting Beast The anthropomorphic train in Nadine Gordimer’s … more →
Childhood
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wrote 3 months ago: I started writing this as a comment on Janus’s post but got a bit carried away. As I did not want to … more →
A prescient perspective on land from 1968
wrote 3 months ago: In 1968, Malcom Rifkind, then a 22 year old postgraduate student at the University of Southern Rhod … more →
