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New Yorker piece: cycling in Rwanda

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  • #2
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Check out the wooden bikes.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SavvZwyOtBg


  • #3
    crumliniano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭crumliniano


    Powerful stuff. The guy who wrote that article, Philip Gourevitch, wrote a great book about the Rwandan genocide called "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families". I read it about 15 years ago and from what I remember it is in the same engaging style - layers of small personal stories building up a vivid panorama.Off topic I know but worth reading if that interests you.


  • #4
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    One of the stories recounted by Gourevitch was that of Paul Rusesabagina, who saved over a thousand people by sheltering them in the Hotel des Mille Collines. That story became the subject of the film Hotel Rwanda.

    Keeping things more on topic, here's a photo of one of those home-made wooden bikes:


    woodenbike-home.jpg?w=510


  • #5
    mcgratheoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,461 ✭✭✭mcgratheoin


    Didn't a Rwandan guy from this project ride the tour of Ireland a few years ago?


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