Indeed, Louis Leakey had, unknowingly, chosen the most politically stable of all the twenty-one African countries where chimpanzees are still found; during all my forty-odd years in Tanzania there has never been rioting or rebellion, thanks largely to Baba ya Taifa, the Father of the Nation, Julius Nyerere. But Gombe was only twenty-two miles from the border with Burundi in the north, and periodically we were aware of the tense situation in that little country as conflicts between the Tutsi and the Hutu peoples flared up, each time resulting in the brutal killing of thousands of innocent men,
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