"I AM NOT BORN IN AFRICA BUT AFRICA IS BORN IN ME"

Two years ago I received an award to an all expenses paid trip to Edinburgh Scotland. I had never been so happy in my life because the award gave me a chance to travel by flight for the first time to a completely different continent.

So off I took my flight from Botswana to South Africa ( Johannesburg OR TAMBO Airport), to Doha Qatar then finally Scotland. 

Two Days  in Scotland I was already homesick and missing Africa,  so lets be real here and am talking to every one who has left the continent for a while either to work or further there studies no continent or place in the world can replace Africa. 

there is something beautiful about being African despite the fact that the western media portrays wars and unrest in the continent with sick thin children suffering of Hunger but truth of the matter is that Africa is a beautiful continent on its own. 

I missed going to a typical street African market with vendors shouting and fighting for customers 

I missed seeing women who would group together under the shade of tree and make money by plaiting other women's hair.

I missed speaking my language Tswana and not having to bite my tongue with the queens language

I generally missed everything African with it .........I know sometimes it is often said Africa is the most unrest and politically unstable continent but fact of the matter is you cannot take away the beauty of the continent.  

Just ask the Americans and they will tell you why they cross oceans to come and just camp in the wild to see the big five and that's because the continent offers you mother nature and its best.

Have you ever went far away and missed Africa... what did you miss ?