Africa Travels
February 21, 2023
Farewell to the Congo As the Ethiopian Airlines jet taxied to our gate, I felt a strange relief leaving Goma. Two weeks in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was enough. My head cold had not improved—rather on the last evening it developed into full blown sinusitis that left me not only babbling in my […]
October 17, 2020
A Heart Full of Serenity The Mali assignment finished, I headed off to the Bamako airport with Pierre, the good-natured driver who, upon learning I had spent the morning with the Salesians of Don Bosco, whispered that he, too, was a Catholic. Pierre had been my driver for three evenings quietly sharing his collection of African hip hop music. One song in […]