Monthly Archives: November 2017
Monthly Archives: November 2017
When I met Cobra, at a magnificently desolate safari camp in Botswana’s blistering white Makgadikgadi Pan, I was struck by his height. I had been living with the impression that all ‘bushmen’ were short. That was assumption #1. He was a remarkable character far beyond those short dreads that frame his serious countenance. It was his short and sharp uttered explanations, as we moved out to look for the herd of zebra gathered around a diminishing pool of water in the arid savanna flats, that first stoked my interest in the art of tracking. Assumption #2 was that bushmen naturally lived in desert areas. I didn’t know that bushmen were chased out of the grasslands and mountains by the settlers and tribes irritated with the beautiful San traditional belief that everything on earth belonged to everyone. Sometimes he’s at the camp, sometimes he goes walkabout. How I wish I’d had a 50mm lens back then. http://www.unchartedafrica.com/
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