Posts Tagged ‘Kigali’
Kigali by night
It’s 8:30 p.m. on my second day in Kigali, and I’m walking, alone (note to readers, particularly mothers of anyone: This is into as bad as it sounds, even in spite of this post. I strenuously resist the woman-traveling-alone-in-Africa stereotype of fear, and I will until the day something bad actually happens to me.), back [...]
Forget the malaria, the dengue, the yellow fever…
Let me tell you what will really kill you in Africa. I arrived in Kigali in the late morning on Thursday, utterly beaten by my travel and utterly annoyed at my pansy self for feeling beaten. My luggage didn’t show up, my nose wouldn’t stop running, and I felt a fever, so instead of heading [...]
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