When I heard Dr Jane Goodall talk in Nairobi about her chimpanzee research in Gombe it became my mission to see man’s closest relative whose DNA is 98 per cent like ours.
In our sturdy car, with my nephew Galib at the wheel, the journey was mapped out from Nairobi: Arusha, Tarangire National Park, Babati, Singida, Tabora, Kigoma and the final sail to Gombe National Park – 3,000 kilometres in nine days.
