From Our correspondent... Elles Van Gelder (Africa)

Africa correspondent Elles van Gelder, who grew up in a small village in Gelderland, tells in this podcast how she knew from an early age that she wanted to go somewhere 'far away'. That place became South Africa, where she has lived for over fifteen years and from where she has also been travelling the rest of the continent for the NOS for six years. She is a 'mourner' and always keeps working, even when it is dangerous or her personal circumst…