GoMad Nomad Travel Mag

A Swim in Lake Tanganyika

I know I shouldn't complain about business travel to Africa. It’s always a rewarding experience. But it’s also an exhausting one. For nearly three weeks I had been waking up at 6, cleaning out my work emails, and leaving the hotel by 7. We would be on the road all day seeing projects. With the sun long set, I would return to my hotel room, eat an overpriced and usually mediocre hotel meal, and crash. So when I suddenly found myself with a free afternoon in Burundi, I was thrilled.

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Working Notes from Rwanda

An international aid worker arrives in Rwanda for the first time and wrestles with the lingering aftershocks of the country’s 1994 genocide while trying to re-build present economic conditions and better the future.

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