"There is nothing. No home”"
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The Ultimate Safari
The Ultimate Safari (1988) by Nadine Gordimer is a short story about a family’s journey from their demolished home in war-torn Mozambique to a refugee camp in South Africa. The story is set in 1988 amid the backdrop of a civil war, which neighboring South Africa supported by the funding of rebel forces. Gordimer, a white South African, was deeply critical of her nation’s involvement, and she tells the story of a young, unnamed refugee girl as she flees a war funded by Gordimer’s government. The
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