African Adventures | Non-Fiction

Roaring Hangover…

An epic lesson of Lions and Liquor on my 21st Birthday in the bush!

Photo by Prem Gangar on Unsplash (Thanks Prem.. I would’ve posted my pics of this incident, but they got drowned by floods many moons ago :()

You’re probably thinking, ‘say what now…’?? This is indeed non-fiction, let’s just start with that.

Amongst my many adventures growing up in our beautiful African continent, were the ones’ which tested my strength on other levels, the kinds that are normally reserved for famous authors — or now YouTube stories. Heck maybe I’ll get some jawesome comments about this one (see what I did there ;)!

Boom boom boom.. in the night, surrounded by bush, and other youngsters my age, dancing, laughing, talking — drinking as much as we could.. all you can see is the stage with a DJ, strobe lights reaching out far above to enhance the stars as big as dinner plates.. and hundreds of us all in-tune with the sounds coming off the stage. This was a real ‘bush party’!

I grew up in Zimbabwe, in the capital of Harare, which consisted of many trips outside the city to well-known places such as; Hwange Nature reserve, Victoria Falls, Masvingo, Domboshava… to name a few (you can use Grampa Google to find them), most of which were (still are) famous tourist spots, but for us locals they had camps and houses we’d go and stay at to enjoy life outside the city. I believe the…