Category: Ideas
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“Yes, our African sky gives on the same sense of perfect freedom and wild exhilaration; sometimes on fees as though, for no reason that could be given, one were almost in an ecstacy of happiness when one goes out alone… Here one is never alone.” Olive Schreiner writing from London, 1879
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Thoughts on not liking Rwanda
East Africa was never on my list. A few years ago, when I put Southern Africa at the top of my list of places to see, East Africa wasn’t even in my mind. And yet East Africa has dominated my recent travels. Uganda, DRC in December/January, Kenya and Rwanda in March/April. The most recent East…
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The girl in the red dress
The girl in the red dress is beautiful. She’s has engaging, dark, laughing eyes. She is shy. Her smile sneaks up and rushes across her face and makes everyone around her smile, too. She brightens a room without trying. The girl in the red dress hasn’t had it easy. She’s been through some of the…