rezendi

Tomorrow, if all goes to plan, I wing my way back to London, which means this will almost certainly be my last post from this Africa trip. (But maybe not my last post about it: I intend a long what's-wrong-with-Africa rant some time after I return to the northern hemisphere.)

Just a couple things before I go. First of all, you should all rush out and read the following two books Right Away: Acid Alex and The Number. Both are addictive, riveting criminal biographies worth reading in their own right. Both are unexpectedly moving. Between them, they'll tell you just about everything you might want to know about recent South African history, culture, society and politics. (Anyone the slightest bit interested in urban tribes must read The Number, in particular.) And, as an added bonus, you'll learn how to swear fluently in Afrikaans!

I leave you with some pictures from South Africa. Yes, full-on multi-megabyte size; sorry, I'm at a cheap Internet cafe, and they don't have much in the way of editing tools. And yes, I do sometimes take smaller-scale pictures too. It's just that they almost never work out. I seem to only really have a photographic eye for fractalesque patterns and landscapes.


The Mother City, as seen from Robben Island.

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Thus endeth this Africa travelblogue. Hope you've enjoyed.