Child of Africa, I grew up in Zimbabwe, however, owing to circumstances, my roots have been somewhat severed, and I have become a child of the world: unaffiliated to any one country, and with a love of many.

Eternal student of the world and traveller.  Moving around for much of the past decade, on a journey of self-discovery, but also with the intention of finding that place where I will one day settle, if only in part, so that I will learn once again, what it is to have roots, and not wings alone.

Africa.  A continent of stark and brutal images.  I have witnessed the effects of colonialism and racism.  I have seen first-hand the results of corruption and the brutality perpetrated by dictators.  My journeys have shown me the striking contrasts of  life in the Third World - the abject poverty, illness, and brutality of life in certain places, and the hopes, aspirations, and optimism of people in others.  I grew up witnessing the ravages of HIV/AIDS, life lost, children orphaned, no food, no water, no security, nothing but that which is inherent in every living being: the will to survive another day, and to hope.


(click Travels for photography pages or go to http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/14449 to view a slide show)

"I am only one, but still I am one.  I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something I can do." - Edward Everett Hale

Gabrielle Elkaim | Zimbabwe/USA
MSc Health, Population and Society | 2008 | The London School of Economics and Political Science
BA African Studies and French | 2005 | Emory University


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