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June 27, 2025Wonder
“AWE - the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.”

Discover the science and sacred beauty of awe with Professor Dacher Keltner

June 27, 2025Wonder
Rewilding - Remember we are wild…

When you immerse in the vast, unspoiled spaces of Africa, there is a rhythm our body remembers. It is in these wild places that the endangered species of modern life – space, stillness and silence – are most powerfully felt. A sort of rewilding of self, perhaps?

June 13, 2025Wonder
Birdies, Barrels, Bugattis & Breeders

A masterful journey of truly exceptional experiences, offered only through our deep-rooted partnerships and personal friendships, that explores the best in wine, classic cars, golf and championship horses in South Africa.

May 29, 2025Wonder
The legacy we leave

In an historic moment for conservation, the first Eastern black rhinos arrived at Segera last week, a critical step of the ambitious Kenya Rhino Range Expansion initiative that aims to create a vast, interconnected and uninterrupted rhino habitat across Laikipia in Central Kenya.

May 17, 2025Wonder
Gardens of Africa

Nature has a way of revealing what matters most, inspiring and healing us, and in South Africa’s gardens – some carefully composed, others gloriously wild – this sentiment comes alive. These gardens are places where time stretches and the natural world speaks in details of texture, scent and colour, rooting us and revealing who we are beneath the noise.

This is the inspiration behind The Gardens of Africa, a new ROAR AFRICA journey that explores South Africa botanical richness.

May 2, 2025Wonder
The women we choose

Reflections from our fifth Women’s Empowerment Retreat in Botswana.

It’s wild to think that we’ve just wrapped up our fifth Women’s Empowerment Retreat. Since returning from Botswana, there’s a question I’ve been holding close. It was one that echoed quietly yet insistently during our time at Xigera and has only grown louder since: What if the most powerful thing you could do for women… was to choose women?

April 17, 2025Wonder
In conversation with Robert Chavez of Hermès

Join Deborah Calmeyer & Robert Chavez, CEO of Hermès, as they reflect on The Greatest Safari on Earth – a conversation about presence, excellence, perfectionism and why travel,when done with care and intention, can be one of the most profound teachers of all.

April 11, 2025Wonder
Live onboard: Emirates World Interview series

Listen to Deborah Calmeyer, CEO & Founder of ROAR AFRICA, in conversation with Emirates on their World Interviews podcast series as she shares her deep connection to Africa and her firm belief in the pure power of this landscape to return us to source—the source of our wild and natural intelligence; the source of our unbidden peace and nourishment; the source of ourselves.

April 4, 2025Wonder
Stories that shape us

Introducing the film adaptation of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight,” based on the book by Alexandra Fuller, an unflinching portrayal of connection and love, brutality and power and the strange, painful ways we struggle with change.

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