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Tim Butcher

“the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchildren. I can think of nowhere else on the planet where the same can be true.” p141”

Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
tags: congo, despair
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