Keith Scott (STEP)

Keith Scott

I can go home but Burundians are home

One of the biggest challenges facing anyone doing any kind of business in Burundi is that the country is chronically short of hard...

Keith Scott

Floods and Mudslides

Early in my stay here in Burundi I got an email from the travel agent which handles all of CMSI’s travel arrangements. It was a warning...

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Power

I had forgotten some of the facts of African life but have been rather dramatically reminded of one in particular: power cuts are a...

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City Centre Standstill

Well here I am, back in Burundi, teaching students at Bujumbura Christian University. Last year I arrived and found it all very new and...

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Here we go…

I am writing this on the first of many flights that will take me home. We take off in bright sunshine straight into the wind, out over...

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The words we speak

Burundi has one main language, Kirundi. Wherever anyone goes in Burundi everyone speaks Kirundi. This makes it very different from many...

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Ruzizi River

This past weekend, I went with a very friendly Clément Ninziza for lunch at a rather flash hotel along Lake Tanganyika. It was great to...

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The Best Laid Plans…

Sometime plans go astray: nowhere in the world more than in Africa. Things just happen and everything you planned to do goes out the...