Africa Image: elephants

The national animal of Cote d’Ivoire is the elephant. The Ivorian football team is known as les Elephants. One of the Ivorian national team Saloman Kalou comes from the village of Bouhitafla just down the road from where we lived in Cote d’Ivoire for eight years. We visited several Ivorian game parks – and never [...]

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The Stranmillis Elephant… or is it?

Thank you to friend and Baptist pastor David McMillan for drawing my attention to the latest in public art in Belfast. Is it an elephant? What do you think? You can follow David’s analysis here.

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The blind men, the elephant and the zoo

I’m sure you’ve heard the story of how six blind men meet an elephant. I came across it again recently – here it is… Six blind men encounter an elephant – although how they knew that it was an elephant the story does not recount. The first touches its trunk and says that an elephant [...]

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