Our last 24 hours in East Africa, and we will be sad to go. We spent the previous 24 hours haggling over goods and trading things too worn to continue. Now lighter in money and in goods we are moving on to Cairo.
A CBC article shed some sobering facts for us about this part of the world, and about some countries seen by others on a whim of a tour or as neighbours to established countries and never for what they really are. We were told the other day that Africans weren't that badly off, sometimes we just don't know what to say to people. There certainly are people who have done well for themselves, but there is a very severe other side of the coin, and that just isn't a conversation we wanted to have.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/refugeecamp/global-trends.html
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