The shower is courtesy of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, a 26 kilometer (16 mile) wide comet that takes 133 years to orbit the Sun.

The shower is courtesy of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, a 26 kilometer (16 mile) wide comet that takes 133 years to orbit the Sun.
East Africa may look very different in five to ten million years.
The answer, as usual, is somewhere in the middle.
That would be the dream.
The answer is right under your nose. Obviously.