My teenage daughter and I had the best time in June on a safari in East Africa! I’d been lucky enough to safari a few times but this trip was particularly special. Not only because I got to see the joy in her eyes as Chloe hand-fed a wild Vervet monkey slices of her watermelon…
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MIA for 5 Weeks… Whaaat!?!? I’m back from East Africa!
So, just where in the sam hell have I been anyway? My blog went MIA for a solid five weeks as I disappeared into the wilds of east Africa. I’ve set foot on the continent more than a dozen times over the last few years and I’d even spent some time in Uganda in…
The Story of Shea
I’ve just returned from a trip to Nigeria (my very first, in fact). I have long indulged a love affair with Africa which has landed me in a few varied spots around the continent (Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Mali and Uganda), but Nigeria was a first for me. Setting aside the tales of northern unrest and…
Two Weeks to the Global Shea Conference in Africa!
Have I ever mentioned how much I adore Africa? As a little girl, I was transfixed by my grandmother’s stack of National Geographic’s and the images of people so different than everything I knew. In high school, I dove into studies in African culture via my sociology classes. And I thought my heart might…