Robyn Keene-Young

Zimbabwean-born Robyn Keene-Young is an Emmy-nominated film producer and a widely-published travel and nature writer. For more than 25 years, she’s explored southern and east Africa, producing magazine features, books, and television documentaries. Her films appear regularly on PBS, National Geographic and BBC. Her work allows her to spend her waking hours in the close company of some of the earth’s wildest and most fascinating creatures.

Robyn attended the University of the Witwatersrand during South Africa’s turbulent transition to democracy, where she graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Law degrees. She worked as a human rights attorney among farmworkers in the Cape winelands, before leaving the profession to live in a tent and document the African wild with her photographer husband. When she’s not filming in remote wilderness, Robyn lives on a farm near South Africa’s Kruger National Park. To read a story written by Robyn for Smithsonian magazine click here.

Mark Geraghty

Mark was born in Ndola, Northern Zambia, being the product of a Jesuit education, Mark has a wide and varied interest in the world around him and has many fascinating insights into Africa, the continent of his birth, and has travelled widely throughout Southern Africa.

Mark has lived in Victoria Falls since 1995 and in that time has worked in every facet of the tourism industry. In recent years he has focused on guiding private groups in southern Africa. In 2003 he married his wife whose family had settled Zimbabwe in 1902, this sparked an interest in Africa’s early history:

The Cradle of Mankind, the Bantu Migrations, the Missionaries early travels on the continent and the subsequent “Scramble for Africa”.

Mark is a passionate storyteller with a piercing insight and great sense of humor