Deadly Venom: I Was Bitten by a Black Mamba Snake in Africa

by Gatimu Juma

Publisher’s note: Gatimu Juma, who reports from the Horn of Africa, told me last June he was working on a story about the Al-Shabaab terror group. Nearly a year went by, and I couldn’t reach him. Finally he surfaced to tell me where he was all this time: convalescing. Gatimu was bitten by one of the world’s deadliest snakes. Here is his story.

This whole thing happened while I had a lull in work. I was reporting a story for SKK about Al-Shabaab in Somalia. I...