“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness” – Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader and Nobel Prize Winner In 2014, while still living in Russia, I got the opportunity to work on a company-strategic project along with 14 other colleagues …
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Rwanda will always have a special place in my heart and mind. I would dare to say that Rwanda has transformed my life. You have certainly heard these phrases many times. Often they are associated with remote places in the world typically labelled as “exotic” or “a place to escape reality”. But I am not …
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If there is anything that I like more than nature is… the wild nature! We spent the rest of our 1-week vacation in Zambia in the wild, remote and beautiful Kafue National Park. Exactly what I needed after the shiny and quite touristic Victoria Falls. Zambia’s top wildlife watching areas are Southern Luangwa and Lower …
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Africa is the second biggest continent on earth and I visited only about 15% of its countries but I can already say that Zambia is a country I can imagine living, raising children and working in (something I can’t say about other African countries I’ve been to). And it took me just a week to …
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Hope is 4 years old and she goes to the kindergarten for about a year now. She has never seen a playground before. Hope can already count to 20, read and write some simple words but she never climbed a monkey bar or had fun on a real swing. Well, she has seen her older …
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My knowledge about Mozambique was limited to just a few descriptions by a native Mozambican I shortly met in Kigali. What I heard was enough to raise my curiosity and plan a visit there. Although our stay was relatively short and didn’t include a lot of travel inland and activities as I usually like to …
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Stone Town The capital of Zanzibar is one of the most alluring cities on Zanzibar – an Arabian-style labyrinth of crooked narrow streets, packed with ancient mansions, palaces and bazaars. We spent only a few hours there but the town itself has lots of interesting places to dedicate several days of aimless wandering. Our starting …
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“This is the finest place I have known in all of Africa… an illusive place where nothing is as it seems. I am mesmerized.” These are not my words though they perfectly describe my feelings about Zanzibar. I can still taste the salty breath of the ocean, mixed with the scent of traditional Zanzibar herbs …
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Like in many other places around the world, climate plays a vital role in Rwanda’s lifestyle and culture. Therefore, before I take you on two amazing cultural journeys into the depths of rural Rwanda, let’s see what the weather looks like in this part of the world. Due to its proximity to the Equator (just …
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When I wrote my first post on Rwandan art more than six months ago, I didn’t think that art would take a lasting place in my life. The truth is, after my initial encounters with extraordinary artworks of local Rwandan self-thought artists and artisans, not a single week has passed without art! It has not just settled in …
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