Kevin Thomas, a fifth generation African was born in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in 1950. In March 1968 at age 17 he joined the Rhodesian Department of National Parks & Wildlife Management under their cadet game ranger scheme. After having spent 6 years as a game ranger and having served on a number of remote Zambezi Valley stations, he left the department and ventured into a short-lived Zambezi Valley based safari venture. 

Due to a worsening insurgency war erupting in Rhodesia Kevin was forced to close his safari venture, and in January 1974 became a founder member of the Rhodesian Army’s elite Selous Scouts Special Forces counter insurgency unit, serving in the unit for 5 years as an operational NCO. In mid-1979 he departed the Selous Scouts as a senior NCO and reentered the Southern African safari industry, a career choice that for close on four decades afforded him the opportunity to guide safaris across much of Southern Africa.

In 1993 Kevin began writing stories for African Hunter magazine, and in addition he has for a number of years been a regular contributor of hunting articles to South Africa’s popular Magnum magazine. He has also written for the US magazine Successful Hunter and at one time regularly contributed feature stories to Sporting Rifle magazine in the UK.

Kevin is the author of six published books and retired from the safari industry at the end of 2013, although he continues to write. In October 2015, and at age 65, he and his wife Brenda chose to depart Africa for the UK, where they now reside on their 60-foot live aboard cruiser narrowboat, Sabi Star on the UK’s 2,000 miles of canals & waterways. An ideal environment for Kevin to continue with his writing and photography.