Article: `Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa,' by Ann Jones; Knopf.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Ann Jones, a powerful travel writer, went looking for Lovedu, a unique African tribe run by a queen and devoted to compromise, peaceful progress and general tranquility. Exploration being what it is these days, she could have just picked up the phone and called the queen, flown into the nearest airport, and had her audience.

But this is not the road Ann Jones would take. The road she took _ in a trip that makes "Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa" (Knopf, $25) riveting, often funny, and sometimes poignant and revealing _ goes down and across Africa. It begins in Tangier at the northern end and runs to Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of the ...

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