In every issue of this magazine, there are stories and photographs that echo each other or intersect briefly – usually by chance. Most of the time, these moments go unnoticed. Here’s an example: A photograph of a little bee-eater appears near the front of go! #132. Fifty pages later, there are full-page pictures of two more little bee-eaters flapping their wings. Something as innocuous as this barely raises an eyebrow.
There are times, though, where a coincidence makes you ponder; where two stories intersect and strike a nerve. It happened to me when I read Toast Coetzer’s story about Namibia (p 32). Toast quotes Lawrence Green’s Lords of the Last Frontier (1952) a few times, and each quote adds valuable context to a heartfelt story.
The next morning in the…
