Blogs in July 2023

Embassy Wife 6th July 2023

Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems...

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Ride the Wings of Morning 30th April 2022

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work as a safari guide on a game reserve in Southern Africa? Sophie arrived in South Africa to spend help a friend run horseback safaris on a game reserve...

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An Empty Coast 5th August 2021

A body from an old war and a missing girl bring retired mercenary Sonja Kurtz home to Africa’s deadly Skeleton Coast. Sonja Kurtz – former soldier, supposedly retired mercenary – is in Vietnam carrying out a personal revenge mission...

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Song of Be 20th July 2020

Be, a young Bushman woman searching in the desert for the peace she remembers from her childhood, realizes that she and her people must reconcile new personal and political realities with ancient traditions.

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The Skeleton Coast 20th July 2020

The “Skeleton Coast”, where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean in south-western Africa, is named after the bleached bones and shipwrecks that lie on its shores. This is Benedict Allen’s account of his thousand-mile trek with camels through...

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