Thursday, December 8, 2011

Adventures in Africa: Part 1 - DON'T GO!

"DON'T GO, SHARON!!"
"SHARON, YOU'RE A FOOL TO GO!!"
"AFRICANS HATE WHITE PEOPLE, SHARON!!"
"SERIOUSLY, SHARON, THEY WILL KIDNAP YOU AND USE YOU AS A WHITE SEX SLAVE BEFORE THEY MURDER YOU!!"

These were the warnings from the people back home, including several African Americans. And one of my friends had good reason to warn me about this, having had a family member murdered in Uganda a decade ago. Plus, just weeks before I got on the plane, there was news that 5 white women were kidnapped and one white man killed in neighboring Kenya by the same Somalian terrorists who blew up a rugby stadium in Uganda just a year earlier.

But I must go. Uganda is calling to me. And so I board the plane.

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