Battering the scatterlings of Africa
FOR all its obvious failures and shortcomings, Africa has an unrivalled ability to enchant. It grabs hard and doesn’t let go.
When Out of Africa author Karen Blixen returned to her native Denmark after 17 years in Kenya, she became deeply depressed. For 20 years she couldn’t bring herself to open the packing cases with her possessions from her farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
