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24 hours in: Kasenyi, East DRC
We’re not in Fort Portal anymore, Toto.
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| Photo by Richard Stupart, the author |
YOUR FERRY will dock, late in the day, at a nondescript pier straddled by the dark carcass of a crane that was likely born in the time of the Belgians. Realise you have already used the word ‘dark’ in describing part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and curse. Promise not to do it again. Damn you Conrad.
Your cameras stay in your bag. Despite smiles from people you pass, you set out convinced that the Eastern DRC is the country-sized equivalent of Pyongyang. Worst place in the world to be a child. War. AK-47s. Underage soldiers in flip-flops. That sort of thing. Not that you’ve seen any.
They must be around though. You saw documentaries.
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