Beyond wildlife

If Sanganai 2013, the annual world travel-and-tourism fair organised by the Zimbabwe tourism authority, told me anything, it was that Zimbabwe is pulling out all the stops. The further I travelled post-convention into this landlocked country, the more my cerebral furniture was re-arranged to embrace a diverse cultural experience that turned wildlife into a fragment of the page on which the rest of the adventure is written. Book Café, Harare: Zimbabwe’s capital city has a deep abiding rhythm. People dance rather than stand in queues. I’m completely unsurprised when, in the throes of conversation, the person I’m talking to does a little shimmy around the omni-present...