Sunday 25 May 2008

Butare, Texas

One of the features on my website (admittedly, it is courtesy of Google Maps) is the ability to see photos for places in Africa. You can go to http://www.investinginafrica.org/, then click on the interactive map option, then select the "more" menu, then tick photos. Photos appear all over the continent.

If you zoom into Rwanda (between DR Congo and Tanzania) there is a photo for Butare, in the south of the country. The photo can be found directly at http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1290656.

I think that Butare could be twinned with so many small towns around the world in so many eras - it has the look of British seaside towns today, of US mid Western towns in the 19th century, of French North African colonies in the 1950s, of southern Spanish towns in the early part of the 20th century. What do you think?

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