I Have a Home in Africa

Outside the Seeds of Peace motel in Rwanda

My favorite movie of all time is Out of Africa. Not because of the beautiful landscape, although it is breathtaking. Not because of the intense clash of Karen Blixen’s aristocratic way of life with the grit required to survive the rough African terrain, although the beauty and absurdity of it is equally magnificent. But because of the way love seeped into the crevices of the family system that developed on Blixen’s plantation and took up residency in...