Saturday, April 30, 2005

They call me Muzungu

Ra's Life If any of you have spent time in Africa then you know "Muzungu". It means, basically, "white man."

Far from American racial and ethnic terms (like my being a Pollock growing up!) "Muzungo" is not a pejorative term.

Children will gleefully yell out "Muzungu!" and then smile and wave.

Today, Kigali was close - until noon. Tomorrow is a national holiday (May 1 - Labor Day) which is also celebrated in many other countries. They take off the morning the day before. I walked around Kigali and found open a couple gas stations and one "secretariet".

So it made for a good morning for unobtrusively taking lots of pictures around Kigali ... stay tuned.


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