An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.
The Lion House
This abandoned lodge in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has been reclaimed by local lions - a story deeply enmeshed in the larger history of the country.
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Further Reading:
S is for Samora (book by Sarah Lefanu)
Let My People Go (poem by Noémia de Sousa)
Apartheid’s Contras: An Inquiry Into the Roots of War in Angola and Mozambique (pdf book by William Minter)
The Mozambican Civil War (1977-1992) (article by Samuel Momodu, BlackPast.org)
Mozambique History Net (Resource)
A Year in Gorongosa (film by Augusto Bila, narrated by Gabriela Curtiz)
In Mozambique, a Living Laboratory for Nature’s Renewal (article by Natalie Angier, The New York Times)
Narrative Fortresses: Crisis Narratives and Conflict in the Conservation of Mount Gorongosa, Mozambique (article by Christy Schuetze)
White Man's Game: Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden, and Other Myths of Conservation in Africa (book by Stephanie Hanes)