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African design is up there with some of the worlds most exciting and inspiring design trends.
Living overseas, I’ve become very nostalgic when it comes to African design and have bought elements of it into my own home. Here are a few items I love to bring your home on trend with Africa.
‘You strike a woman, you strike a rock,’ were the words sung by hundreds of women as they marched to the Union Buildings on the 9th August 1956. Although that was 60 years ago, these words still ring true. Nowhere more so than in Balule Nature Reserve, where the Black Mamba all-women anti-poaching unit operates.
Next on our list of wonderful safari spaces to swoon over is Segera Retreat’s recently launched NAY PALAD Bird Nest in Kenya. The NAY PALAD Bird Nest offers a luxurious sleep out experience like no other.
Whether it’s sweets or savouries, carrot cake or koeksisters, some of Africa’s safari lodges have a knack for putting on the most delicious high tea spreads in the wildest locations. If you love high tea is much as we do, you’ll want to know which lodges do it best.
I dreamed of Africa“Looking into the night, I can see eyes staring back at me.
In the dark, something is moving. I am afraid, but I am also happy.
I have never been here before, And yet I feel like I have returned.
I am at peace.”
Abelana River Lodge is the new kid on the block and it doesn’t disappoint! Take a peek at this exciting new property just 5 hours from Johannesburg.
Ian McCallum’s poignant words remind us why we seek to experience Africa’s wilderness areas and protect their wild beauty, both tangible and intangible.
Photo credit: Kerry De Bruyn