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Blood River
Blog: Travellerwill's blog - 3 September 2009
Blood River by Tim Butcher is the bestselling travel writing book of recent years and with good reason. When he wrote it Mr Butcher was the Johannesburg correspondent of the ‘Daily Telegraph’ and while covering events in Africa he became interested in the journey of the British/American explorer H.M. Stanley across the centre of Africa, [...]
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My Run-in with the Congolese Police
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 1 July 2009
By John Soleanicov, KF8 DRC I could feel the beads of sweat rolling down my face. Sitting in a makeshift police station under a tent, I was surrounded by three Congolese policemen and my accuser, a young man that could not have been past his mid twenties. My crime: videotaping in public. As I was returning from [...]
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Bienvenu a Kinshasa!
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 22 June 2009
Not long after my Kenya Airways flight slalomed into N’djili Airport, I began to hear the noise. Drum beats. Cheering. Flag-waving masses of people. “Wow,” I thought, “what a welcome.” I had heard the Congolese were welcoming, but this is a bit over the top! It turns out the ad-hoc parade wasn’t for me (Bummer!) but [...]
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