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Nomadic lifestyle

I could get used to this nomadic existence. Love waking to the sound of unfamiliar birds, looking up from my book and seeing a different place most days, camping in a welwitschia forest in the desert, the challenge of driving difficult roads, packing and unpacking every other day, camping beneath a 100-year old mango tree, the taste of fresh roasted peanuts, still warm, from the side of the road, the sounds of genuine weekday worship... There are many nomads in Africa, sadly mostly European. When we chat, we say we have been through Namibia, Angola and Zambia but, to me, we seem rather to be traveling through the Kingdom of Ndongo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ndongo?wprov=sfla1 / In Namibia, we pass through towns like Oshikango... Ndongo was a vassal of Congo. In Angola, bill boards sometimes refer to ‘Ngola... Morne, our man in Angola, tells us the legend of the last ‘Ngola (King) of Ndongo. At the time he died there was no internet, no TV, no radio. So they chopped h...