Susan Kathleen Jahme was born in Southern Rhodesia and did her tertiary education at boarding school in Rhodesia. (Southern Rhodesia and Rhodesia are the names given to Zimbabwe prior to independence by the Pioneers who colonized and developed Southern Africa.) Her college education was in Natal, South Africa.

The majority of her formative years were spent in Malawi (formerly Nyasaland), where her father worked as a Senior Airline Captain with Air Malawi. After leaving college, she worked for a short time in Malawi and then found employment in Madagascar as a Public Relations Officer for an International Tobacco Company. Upon her return to Malawi, she met her husband, Graham, who was working on an expatriate contract as an Agriculturist with the Malawi Government. Together they have two daughters, Kerry and Taryn. Both daughters share the same love of African flora and fauna as their parents, and they too can fish, shoot and pitch a tent as well as, if not better than, any lad!

Ms. Jahme, a woman of many talents and interests, has utilized her talent of working in the business world while she has continued to cultivate her abilities in photography, needlework, darning, ikibana – a Japanese form of flower art – flower arranging, and cooking. However, over the past twenty years she and her husband have given in to their personal and passionate commitment to animal wildlife conservation. This has resulted in being actively involved in the Black Rhino Relocation Project that was carried out in the Zambezi Valley. As artists, they have often donated wildlife paintings and graphics to fund-raising auctions to benefit wildlife conservation projects. One such exhibition staged in the Harare Sheraton resulted in their donation of the proceeds from eighty of their artworks to the Cecil Kop Nature Reserve in Eastern Zimbabwe.

Until recently, Ms. Jahme and her family lived on a farm in Zimbabwe for fifteen years. They now live in the Garden Route of South Africa’s beautiful Cape, where they paint, photograph and write about the animals they love so much.