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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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| Within months of the first Land Rover being made, in April 1948 they started appearing in colonial Africa. First to get their hands on this 20th-century packhorse were the British District Commissioners, District Officers and then white hunters. |
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