Saturday, February 28, 2009

IN AFRICA WATCHING THE SUN SET 1964

The Queen of Ethiopia

In the days of King Solomon, three thousand years ago,
there lived in Ethiopia a dynasty of queens, who reigned
with great wisdom. One queen, the Malika Habashiya or
Abyssinian Queen of old legends, had a dream in which she
held a kid in her lap.
Sunbirds (Zimbabwe)

The sunbirds are two golden birds, which were found among
the ruins of Zimbabwe about a century ago by one of the
first explorers. They were probably discovered in the
remains of a building which may have been the sun-temple
of the ancient Bantu religion of the Shona people of
Zimbabwe.

AFRICA.
SUNSET IN THE AFRICAN DESERT - 1964

From the veranda of Harambee, which is the Swahili name for the home I lived in during my stay in Kenya. Often I could stand for minutes at a time, watching the sun setting.
The year was nineteen sixty four, with one child, a son, his name David. He, sleeping in the arms of my Ayah and friend Ameena, a Somali tribes-woman, lying comfortably, wrapped in her flowing gown. The two of us just standing, watching the sun herself going to sleep beneath the horizon.
And much more