There I was, watching the sun go down from inside this vast, gorgeous film set of a restaurant in Stone Town, Zanzibar, but I couldn’t escape the full absurdity of my position.
I was there ostensibly to tread the path trod by John Hanning Speke, who is celebrated for discovering the source of the Nile more than 150 years ago. Speke endured as much hardship as anyone can take in his quest for glory, to answer a geographical conundrum that…