ryan daniel erasmus

AFRICAN DREAMING-- This is a site dedicated to the last 28 years of my life i spent growing up, in Africa, i was born in zimbabwe . I was born on a small farm my grandfather purchased way back in 1976i grew up in an adventure filled world of culture wildlife and i developed a great love of this continent and land, i went to a boarding school which was a harsh environment of beatings and punishments, my memories of these days are ones filled with tears but also a lot of joy, as i finished school i studied agriculture and i worked on my family farm. these pictures are all the photos i have gathered of me and my families life. I have tried my best to recolect and remember each one of them, they span my and families entire life in Africa, the land i was born in and the place i love the most,

since the tragic dictatorship of the zimbabwean government we were forced to flee and make a new life for ourselves, the road has been a hard and long one, for i have left 28 yrs of my life behind, since immigrating to newzealand i have encountered so much pain, pain of finding out who i am a career and an identity in a land thats my new home. I have loved and have lost love, i have laughed, and i have cried, i have found and lost friends, i have fell in despair to my knees many a time only to climb the mountain and fall again. I have done things and said things i deeply regret, but out of this all i have grown in character and strength each day, this site is for all my friends and family and people i have met along the way its a small tribute to my life, to adventures, to africa.