Romantic tourism, also referred to as love tourism or relationship tourism, has grown in popularity amongst world travellers seeking romantic encounters, love or marriage while exploring new destinations. Authors Deborah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont first introduced the term' romance tourism' in their 1995 publication titled For Love and Money: Romance Tourism in Jamaica to describe the relationships between western female tourists and local black men generally referred to as 'Beach Boys'.  Romance tourism has existed for much longer, as Samuel Sunday Segun Odunlami points out in his 2009 research...

An American woman who was on what she had called her "last big trip" was killed when a charging elephant flipped over the car she was traveling in at a national park in Zambia. The “aggressive” creature buffeted the vehicle carrying six tourists and a guide, tour operator Wilderness said in a statement Tuesday. It said the 79-year-old victim died after Saturday's incident on a game drive at the Kafue National Park in western Zambia. The company did not name the victim but Rona Wells, her daughter, identified her as Gail Mattson in a post on Facebook. She said her mother died in a “tragic...

It is quite astounding how when history remembers or reflects on great African men and women, despite the audience there is a tendency to mention them in comparison to a white man. They tune the narrative to ensure the African person is positioned directly in the shadow of the white man. The white man is elevated to a position that reveals them as the personification of greatness and the African is applauded for aspiring, but never reaching or surpassing such levels of greatness as allegedly set by the white men. African stories must be told from an African perspective especially to a foreign...

The city of Cape Town is faced with a challenge of constant confrontation with a group of asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants who are based at the City’s Central Methodist Mission Church. This issue is more an African crisis than it is a South African one. Obviously, there will be questions on South Africa with regards to how they set up their refugee camps if any are in existence. However, at the heart of the story is the question of what the African Union (AU) should be doing. The group of refugees in question have been identified to be people from Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, Somalia and...