It was the first time I set foot on the Dark Continent, but for several years I then felt a strong need to return there repeatedly. How to describe it? A journey to the essence, to our cradle, to our origin. You feel it. It is a place where the universe is much more present and closer than elsewhere. With all its power, but also with all its cruelty and indifference. With its stars that pierce your retina. With its extreme climates. With its odors. With this thin curtain between life and death. But still, when you watch a lion hunting scene, with a poor creature being downed and mauled, besides the compassion, the pain, there is still a sense of peace and balance. Here you are alive, so you can die. Only who does not live cannot die….