After a devastating breakup and corporate burnout in 1995, 29-year-old Brisbane local John Ahern sold everything for a one-way ticket to post-apartheid Africa, only to face charging elephants, active landmines, and armed militia. His impulsive journey took a deadly turn in Kenya when a stranger drugged him with a piece of chocolate on a bus, […]
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