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By Chris Harvie
Uninterested in tragic tales, Chris Harvie units out to determine thepositive aspect of the 'Dark Continent' and to get pleasure from its lifestyles andlaughter. don't Take This highway to El-Karama is the entertainingaccount of an epic street journey that takes him from hishome open air the Kruger nationwide Park to the banks of theNile in Uganda – and again again.In his haphazard and a little eccentric travels, Harvieencounters missionaries and mechanics, locals and ex-pats,rascals and rogues. Delving into his personal combined British andSouth African identification, he attempts to fathom – in his trademarkwitty and sardonic kind – the post-independence nationalcharacter of the southern, valuable, and east African countriesthrough which he and his partners pass.Delightfully opinionated, brimming with fascinating facts,questionable remark and doubtful speculations, this bookis crucial studying for someone with greater than a passinginterest in Africa, commute, background and folks; in an outstanding read;or simply...
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She had a floppy hat pulled down over her light brown bob and his crewcut spiked back in the camera flash. Anton was wrapped up in a fleece and clutching a cup of coffee as I brought the last of the bags down and loaded them into their niche in the back of the bakkie. There was an excited buzz of anticipation. It was the cut-off moment and we were nervous. Whatever we had forgotten now would stay behind forever. It had been a tricky couple of weeks since Mike and Moira had arrived from England.
Hendrik Verwoerd, architect of apartheid, was Prime Minister of South Africa, which had become a republic three years earlier. I was schooled at one of England’s great bastions of privilege, where my father, grandfather and my grandfather’s nine brothers and their countless sons had already led the way. The closest we came to Africa was a walk through the South African cloisters built to commemorate old boys who had ‘fallen’ in the Anglo-Boer War. A few weeks after I left school in 1982, I was despatched to the colonies for my year off.
I don’t speak any Setswana, but from the rise and fall of the actors’ voices and the background clucks and honks, I took it that we were listening to the local equivalent of BBC Radio Four’s ‘The Archers’, but, in this moderate country, presumably a version without the extramarital affairs and the lesbianism. Either that or the local studio was recording a plainsong version of ‘Old Motlhakanga had a Farm’. We were hungry when, after about four hours on the road, we stopped for petrol. There was no food to be found in any of Nata’s four petrol stations and we were uncomfortably swamped by children pointing at, and asking for, anything they could see in the car.