I have a book entitled "The Trouble With Africa". It is positive in its wonderful collection of stories of a game park in Zambia and of life in Africa. I find I can use it as a saying often. The trouble with Africa is you meet people whose faith in God belittles yours. The Botswana government collect refugees and place them in camps, referred to as prisons as they are effectively imprisoned until they decide what to do with them. In the Church we met Bwami, who...

Everything you read about travelling in Africa insists you make sure you don't travel at night, so it was only fitting on arrival in Botswana we should do the last 50km to Francistown in the dark. People assume that animals, donkeys especially, station themselves on warm roads at night but the reason you mustn't travel after dark is a little less obvious. You realise with your car does not operate as well at night and with the setting of the sun things start to ...