I remember a childhood story in which zebras roamed the streets of cities that were paved with gold, along with flamingoes and tortoises and penguins and tigers and sheep and peacocks.
Read MoreThis improbable country is blessed with surreal beauty but has a painful history of colonialism and apartheid. Miraculously, it has retained its innocence and sweetness and is the only nation which has the conservation and protection of its natural heritage written in its constitution.
Read MoreThe fiery Herero tribe of southern Namibia, along with the Nama, rebelled against their German oppressors during 1904-1907.
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