A person who has not crossed an African border on foot has not really entered the country

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“A person who has not crossed an African border on foot has not really entered the country, for the airport in the capital is no more than a confidence trick; the distant border, what appears to be the edge, is the country’s central reality.”

–Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown (2003)

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