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How a Saying Taught Us to Be Strangers in Our Own City

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How a Saying Taught Us to Be Strangers in Our Own City — KMT Discovery
KMT DISCOVERY · CULTURE & PUBLIC LIFE
A quiet brick walking path through a park in Kimihurura, lined with trees.
ESSAY · KIGALI, RWANDA

How a Saying Taught Us to Be Strangers in Our Own City

Section 1

The Walk

It was a Saturday morning and I had no particular reason to be there.

Someone said "let's walk" and I said yes the way you say yes to things when the week has been long and you need air that doesn't smell like an office. We ended up in Kimihurura. The route was already drawn: parliament, the KCC roundabout, Centenary Park, the inner loop, the roundabout park at the end. 3.2 kilometres. Forty-five minutes. I didn't know I had been missing it.

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