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Gallery: Land Rovers across Africa
On the day of my deliverance to Timbuktu, a quasi-religious pilgrimage for an Africaphile like me, the Harmattan wind had whipped the Sahara into a frenzy. Like a giant Hoover, the tempest had sucked the surface of the desert high into the sky. In a world turned uniformly beige, Timbuktu had disappeared...
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Land Rovers' ability to penetrate the depths of desert and jungle have made them the vehicle of choice for armies. They last saw duty in the Gulf War with British forces. And on a (much) more primitive scale, the Masai even use old Land Rover bolts to add some ferocity to the ends of their rungu war clubs.

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