Made with Xara Why do westerners find Africa so dog gone interesting?  After some thought it seems to me that Africans are to humanity what pigment is to a Picasso or Rembrandt.  Europeans and their derivatives are far removed from the fundamental survival instincts and skills that Africans still use along with cell phones, cars and computers.  They are masters of the new world while still having to live by the same laws of survival humanity honed a million or so years ago. Humanity is seen at its deepest level when I look into the eyes of the Bushman.  One’s intereste only gros in their culture once you follow them as they track an animal over barren rock or soft grass.  Or perhaps to those who believe the Bushman can go makaukau - or change into a lion as so documented in Dennis Blackbears’s book The Huntion Blackbeards of Botswana. For these reasons we marvel in the presence of a specie that will survive when modern humanity dissolved back to the salt and water from which it came.  We hope we will survivie through th emoment of trutch but we know they will. So here I go again to Agrica to learn from the masters and find elemental humanity.  Theree is nothing better for me. Additional Excerpts available here. Forward