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The Beautiful and the Damned.
The Beautiful
and the Damned [Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles, Richard Dowden, Portobello, 550 pages] A DECADE AGO, at 3 a.m. on a hot night in a small village a few hours north of Kampala, Uganda, I was woken by the sound of screaming. I sat up in the pitch black, head cocked. All around me, in concrete dormitories, the pupils of Makonze boarding school were sleeping--but it wasn't a child's voice. I listened for a while longer, then identified the noise: the cold, futile shriek of a dying dog. So I got up, full of indign...See the full content of this document
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