I am SO thrilled that my friend, Brett Horley, has launched his own fireside podcast!…
‘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.
We’ve put together our favourite African inspired Christmas gifts to delight the safari-lover in your life.
Pikolinos is a Spanish shoe company that prides itself on high-quality, handcrafted leather footwear.
What we love about them is their Maasai Project, a line of exquisite, beaded sandals designed and crafted by women from Maasai communities in Kenya and Tanzania.
We recently visited the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi and felt incredibly moved by the work they’re doing with orphaned elephants. We fell in love with Angela Sheldrick’s watercolours, which are for sale online and contribute to the DSWT orphan project’s funding.
Jane Goodall“It was wildest, untouched Africa, and it was magic.”
James Stevenson-Hamilton“…few can sojourn long within the unspoilt wilderness of a game sanctuary, surrounded on all sides by its confiding animals, without absorbing its atmosphere; the Spirit of the Wild is quick to assert supremacy, and no man of any sensibility can resist her.”