“They taught us the speed of light, but they never taught us the speed of darkness.”
Sarajevo Marlboro
by Miljenko Jergovic
Fire means different things to different people, for some it is a necessity to stay alive, it supplies them with heat against cold, a source of heat to cook their meals. For many Namibians it is a purely recreational matter, to sit around dreaming about better days, and the odd while drinking a beer or two. Unfortunately, there is another group, maybe they make fire for the birds? They make random fires, burning as many trees (indigenous trees) as possible, destroying an ecosystem which will never recover,
