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Travels in the DRC, 2005

In 2005 I made my first trip to Africa, though for a long time previously it had been my career aim to work here. In my mid-20s, I didn’t want to start with a safari, so I chose the DRC and flew into Rwanda to cross the border at Goma. I worked with a team from Northern Ireland building a Christian radio station in Kisangani in the middle of the country. On a memorable day beside Lake Kivu I also received a message from England that I’d received a place on a new masters course at Oxford in African studies.

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