IT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME WHEN I TRAVEL abroad and tell people I’m from South Africa that there is always someone who asks: “Where is that?” I can’t help, slightly arrogantly, thinking to myself that if there’s one country in the world with a clue in its name, surely it’s South Africa?
Turns out no. I was left red-faced after friends suggested we go to the Central African Republic and my exclamation of “I’d love to” was followed by a frantic googling of where CAR, as it’s affectionately known, actually is. This country of almost six million people is landlocked by Chad, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon in…. the center of Africa!
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