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Sat 09 Sep 2008Through Africa in a truck
GO BOOK:The first big journey that our columnist Manchán Magantook was a trip from England to Kenya, as he describes in his new book
I WOKE SUDDENLY with a crick in my neck. I was in the back of a truck - an old troop transporter - on my way to Africa, in late 1990. There were 18 people crammed around me, all of them jumbled together trying to sleep. The girl on whose shoulder I had been resting sensed my fright and opened her eyes, looking around her blearily. "You okay?" she muttered. "Fine," I managed.
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