We’ve been delighted by election news out of the US.  Not only for the promise of positive change but for the sense that everybody in the US deserves to feel like a winner.   

With economic woes in most of the places around the world where we have good friends plus an unfair share of political problems in our own parts of Africa we’re hoping that the good vibes out of the US will rub off on the rest of us too! 

Perhaps by following the American example we might start easing this global logjam...

So whilst America’s been celebrating Africa’s been marking the occasion in its own style: 

• Kenya declared today a public holiday – they just closed the whole place down and partied!  Probably drinking Senator Keg beers, known simply as "Obamas". 

Mr Obama's half sister Auma Obama reported to BBC that "The shock hasn't set in that we're the “first family”". She joked that every member of the family in Kenya would add the word "first" to their title - First Sister, First Grandmother, First Niece!    

• Speaking of "First Borns", more than half of the babies born in a Kisumu Hospital yesterday were named either Barack or Michelle Obama.  (Kisumu in western Kenya is where we had most of the troubles after the Kenya election early this year; close to Mr. Obama’s late father’s home)

 Leaders all over Africa have extended congratulations to Mr Obama where he’s inherited a foreign policy legacy that has been one of the high points of the Bush administration.  

We’re looking forward to a change in fortunes because we’re reminded that “we make the future”! 

So to mark a new chapter we’ve launched our new www.zambezi.com website and we’re asking you to help us grow our business…

...send this note to friends and colleagues and add us to your favourites...

Here’s the easy way to browse the site:

• If you know what you want – go to the “Safari Finder ”.

• No idea where to start?  Go to the “Safari Helper ”

• Happy to dig around?  Go to safari types , destinations or recommended safaris and delve a bit deeper…

We’ve just gone live and we’re looking for bugs, please drop a note to Trish, Debbie or John via http://www.zambezi.co.uk/sslkba/ when you find them. 

[...in the meantime a special thanks from the full Zambezi team to Trish in Devon, the web duo at Imperial College plus Dave and his team in Cape Town...you're the best!]

Jackie’s still tracking gorillas in Uganda; John’s back from an epic climb up Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania; Chris is about to head out to Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe; five of the team are converging on London for World Travel Market next week – setting fresh plans for 2009.
 
In case we never made the point clear enough – help us grow our business and tell your friends about www.zambezi.com .

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