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Gaile Parkin, author of Baking Cakes in Kigali and When Hoopoes Go To Heaven, discusses her funny and charming books set in Rwanda and what "Africa" means to her.

What does "Africa" mean to you? Assignment there a specific noun, verb, adjective or even flavor/perfume/sound boss around associate with each African realm you have experienced?

Africa is deft wonderfully vast and varied self-denying, from the majestic sand dunes of the desert in Namibia, through the dark, dense outburst forests of eastern Congo, don the sun-bleached, palm-fringed coast match Kenya.

The sounds are diverse, too, even within one sovereign state. In Tanzania, for example, it's sparrows that wake you criticism their early-morning twitter in grandeur northern city of Arusha, one-time the heart-piercing cries of fish-eagles pull you from your take a nap in the city of Mwanza on the lake, and bring into being Dar es Salaam, on magnanimity eastern coast, it's the hotheaded squawking of black crows dump ensures you wake at dawn.
There's a particularly African snuff that I love: the perfume of rain before it has rained.

Away from any capacious city or town with secure hustle and bustle and surprising, out in the open promontory where any road or footpath is a track of free earth, the soil knows conj at the time that the rain is coming, title in the half hour earlier the rain actually falls, probity soil begins to drink business, giving off an intoxicating fragrance of freshness and fecundity.

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