A wedding, Rwanda style……or maybe Burundi

Having been invited to Rwanda for my friend Chance’s wedding  to lovely, local girl Fausta I could only have been kept away at gunpoint. Although there were three days of festivities in all, two of them broadly followed the outline of the wedding I attended during the visit two years ago, see  http://insideotherplaces.com/2008/03/18/rwanda-2008-not-just-gorillas-and-killers/ . Hence what follows concerns only the traditional wedding ceremony day. Unlike the previous wedding where we were guests I was honored (not a term I would…

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Rwanda 2008 – not just gorillas and killers

When Rwandan friend Chance asked if I would like to accompany him on his first return trip to the country since the genocide I didn’t even waste time thinking about it and just said “yes”. It didn’t take much additional effort to persuade our friends Ash and Chris to join in. Rwanda will probably mean only one or two things to most of you, i.e.: genocide and mountain gorillas. Both difficult to avoid here, the first for obvious reasons, the latter…

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