African Dancers and Story of Lion Attack

These ladies danced for everyone at the education conference

There were 7 women dancers and one man

And three male drummers

I met a driver today, called Charles, who was taking me somewhere. He told me a scary story about how he was attacked by a lion in his village. His village lies 140k from here in between two national parks, and the event happened 20 years ago. A lion had come too near the villagers’ huts (the ‘kraal’) and the villages had shot and wounded, but not killed, the lion. The lion returned the next day and attacked one of the villagers (Charles' relative). Charles tried to assist the villager and the lion attacked Charles, swiping his head with his giant paw and causing a deep wound on the back of his head with one claw that caught him. With the other front paw, he caused three more wounds with its claws. Charles fell to the ground, and by this time, police and other villagers were coming to help. The lion leapt over Charles and attacked one of the policemen. The lion was finally shot dead, but three people had been hurt, though thankfully no-one was killed.

Charles asked me lots of questions about the UK, and said his brother had been there. When I asked him which part, he said Canada. He found it hard to believe that Canada wasn’t in the UK!

Another person I met recently asked if we had elephants in England and was surprised to find we didn’t.