Archive for May, 2009
The other side of Victoria Falls
Ask a local in Zimbabwe about their government, and you are unlikely to get answers. None of them will talk about it. It is after all, illegal to talk ill of dictator Mugabe’s failing economics. But one can feel the despair and hopelessness in the air. After much prodding, our driver answered our questions -a [...]
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We entered Zimbabwe with eyes open wide (and mouths closed). A country rifed in political instability and sanitation issues, its selling point from a distance is the powerful roar of the Victoria falls. Yet, somehow, it wasn’t the falls that made me sit still and gaze in awe. It was the stillness of the bushes [...]
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