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...plane to Nairobi; on the one hand, the author is repelled by the bumbling, garrulous man, overeager to befriend a stranger who is similarly of Indian origin. Yet Naipaul writes with uncharacteristic feeling for the Sikh’s profound predicament as a British Asian going to Tanzania to try and extricate his own mother. He writes of the outright racism that the Sikh experiences at Nairobi Airport, where British Asians are denied entry into Kenya without a visa despite every other British citizen being given free entry. Similarly vivid is Naipaul’s encounter with a Kenyan shoeshine...
...Hope Zinc could change that. Earlier this year, pilot zinc-treatment programs began in parts of Ethiopia and Tanzania, and several African governments are now looking at zinc programs. The treatment is already stirring interest among rich-country donors and drug companies: about 20 firms in countries from France to India have begun manufacturing zinc tablets during the past few years. "The private sector was never really interested in ORT," Fontaine says. "But zinc has totally taken off. It looks like real medicine and is not given out for free." (See pictures of Ethiopia's harvest of hunger...
KING’ORI, Tanzania — Before my arrival in Tanzania, I had a lot of preconceived notions about what Africa was going to be like. I thought it would all be savanna and that it would always be unbearably hot. I thought that I would see poverty at every turn, and that nobody would speak English. I thought I would stick out like a sore thumb because of the color of my skin—and on that count, at least, I was right...
...fortunate enough to travel on our long weekends, I have witnessed incredible things: baby elephants just outside our safari truck, lions resting with their morning kill, white sand beaches, and the sun setting over the Indian Ocean. But when I think of the thousands of tourists who come to Tanzania and see nothing but the Serengeti, Zanzibar, and the inside of an airport, I'm sad for them. They are missing out on what, to me, is the real Africa...
...Tanzania will always be the six weeks I've spent living in King'ori village, home to 4,500 people halfway between Arusha and Moshi (ie, the dusty middle of nowhere). Village life is nothing like I expected: Poverty doesn't define it, and you don't see the disease and famine that you hear about on the news. It's here that I've experienced the generosity of the African family—how they will continue to feed you long after you're full, and how they will take in anybody, no matter how distantly related, if they...