Tsavo

The internet’s finest Africa* reference™ *That’s the song, “Africa”, not the continent, of course Go Premium I Must Do What I Know Is Right, (von Sachsen-Rampton, 1983) Kilimanjaro rising like itself above the Tsavo. Olympus, rising like Olympus, above — I don’t know — Thessaloniki or something. Kilimanjaro rising about 70km from Mt Meru, in the Arusha National Park, which is itself still 230km away from the Serengeti. Click the ᐅ to expand: Toto Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Requests? Insults? We’d love to 📧 hear from you. Sign up for our newsletter.

The plain above which Kilimanjaro actually rises, but which in doing so, does not especially resemble Olympus. The Tsavo is quite a long way from the Serengeti, and even further from the West Hollywood salons where David Paich and his buddies hung out in the eighties and had the idea for that fabulous song Africa.