A herd of elephants roaming Botswana shows how wildlife can shape a region’s identity. The quotes point out that colonial history still fuels conflict across Africa, while tourism lets local people earn money from natural landscapes. They also remind us that media stories often over‑simplify the continent’s reality.
![“It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you can do. In…” quote by Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ff5/rem-koolhaas-5371_africa_it-was-a-book-george-packer-written-on-o_3159314.jpg)
