Which means hello in Lingala, the local language in Kinshasa. This blog has taken me quite a while to get together - about three months in all, the time I have been in the country. I have been writing the whole time, this is only my second time in Africa, so I wanted to capture all my first impressions before everything seemed "routine" and "normal", but the thought of putting everything on the internet, to make it public, is a bit intimidating. I admit that the title sounds a little Kim Kardashian, but it was the best I could come up with on the fly!
It has been the elections that made me finally open up this account - seeing how Congo is represented to the world, and the English-speaking world in particular. I'll be posting some of the stuff I have already written over the next few weeks (the internet is REALLY slow here!), so the timeline might be a bit out of whack, but hopefully it will give you an idea of what it is like to live in Kinshasa, a place that is both frustrating and incredibly warm and the same time.
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