On The Road To Kigosi

From The Market Financial, Toronto, CANADA

My Dear Extended Family,

The sun has just risen over the magnificence of Lake Victoria. On one hand you can feel the excitement of the adventurers Burton and Speke as they first viewed this vast body of water on their march to declare it as the headwaters of the Nile.

You might think of the hallmark movie, “The African Queen,” as Bogart finally leaves the mango forest and wetlands to embark on Lake Victoria in search of the one German warship plying these waters in the early 1900s.

I, like Burton, am taken with the sincerity and friendliness of Tanzania, then Tanganyika people. I see the deep spirituality resident here, but almost destroyed by the missionaries. It was so for Burton then and is for those that care to see it now.

As the sun rises the multi-million dollar estates that dot the mountain ridges around Ryan’s Bay stand in stark confirmation of the economic explosion that has and is occurring here in Mwanza.

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