Driving With Rhinos

“It was Africa’s year, the year Bono and Bob Geldof and a million others said Make Poverty History. What a load of rubbish…” Zambian-born Canadian journalist, David Julian Wightman, traveled throughout southern Africa in 2005, spending seven months covering his native land, freelancing for aid agencies in Botswana and Malawi, taking the pulse of the new South Africa, and even raising the ire of Zimbabwe’s dreaded secret police. From the drought- and AIDS-ravaged countryside of Malawi to the manicured gardens of Johannesburg, in squalid refugee camps and romantic Kalahari Bushman campsites, David Julian Wightman takes us to places humanitarian rock stars ne’er do tread.