bout de papier, Volume 11, Issue No. 3, 1994
A Crocodile in the Pool: Tales of a Diplomat’s Wife in the Congo
Janet Ruddock’s odyssey from diplomatic spouse to author began one day in May of 1998 in a dusty North Toronto basement.
“A small and challenging post in Africa please”
“Chargé departed on leave this morning. I have assumed charge. P.S.: burning barricades across the airport road and demonstrations throughout the day. Help!” And so it all began, six weeks into Kinshasa…. Fortunately rain stopped play — as it often did —…
Great Lakes’ Mission
In the fall of 1996, a humanitarian crisis loomed in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa. Fighting in eastern Zaire between rebel troops led by Laurent Kabila and troops of the government of Zaire drove refugees, mostly Hutus from Rwanda, from…
