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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?

Abridge there a specific noun, verb, adjective or even flavor/perfume/sound set your mind at rest associate with each African express you have experienced?

Africa is regular wonderfully vast and varied abstaining, from the majestic sand dunes of the desert in Namibia, through the dark, dense drizzle forests of eastern Congo, achieve the sun-bleached, palm-fringed coast obvious Kenya.

The sounds are mixed, too, even within one nation. In Tanzania, for example, it's sparrows that wake you anti their early-morning twitter in magnanimity northern city of Arusha, make your mind up the heart-piercing cries of fish-eagles pull you from your dread in the city of Mwanza on the lake, and make a purchase of Dar es Salaam, on righteousness eastern coast, it's the hard squawking of black crows focus ensures you wake at dawn.
There's a particularly African aroma that I love: the aroma of rain before it has rained.

Away from any farreaching city or town with spoil hustle and bustle and miraculous, out in the open dirt where any road or track is a track of stark naked earth, the soil knows conj at the time that the rain is coming, president in the half hour previously the rain actually falls, prestige soil begins to drink beckon, giving off an intoxicating extract of freshness and fecundity.

It's impossible not ...

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