290 Days in the Congo

Travel diaries in the country where the heart of Africa beats!

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I speak Swahili, eat bukari and now also use Lubumbashi's two-wheeled transport. After the spectacular steps I have taken towards absolute Congoleseness, I am only three stages before it. The next things I will master will be making my hair into pigtails, sewing kikube and going to school carrying my books on my head. The passport plays absolutely no role. It is important to feel Congolese and I am overflowing with this feeling now!

A whim of fate dropped me in the heart of Africa, where I was faced with many challenges. From fun and cute, like the ones mentioned above, to painful and overwhelming, something I wasn't adequately prepared for. I took the bet and still do. If I walk around with textbooks on my head, it will be revealed to you... by my nurses. Whether I conquered the other challenges, the deep ones, I don't even know yet. But I will bet on it for the rest of my life! What I know for sure is that Africa conquered me!

If the only image you have of the Congo is that of colonialism, it's time to revise it! One of the most unknown sides of Africa comes alive before our eyes, through the travel diary of a Greek woman!

Author Biography

Η Eleni Proga was born in 1967, in Patras. He studied Informatics and Mathematics in Crete and serves Public Secondary Education from 1994 until today, as he works as a Mathematician. However, apart from what the registry office says, the educational qualifications and the employee's register, the truth is much more... metaphysical. He is born every time he starts a journey and discovers a new homeland. Every time he explores the paths of art and finds channels of expression through them. Every time beautiful people are in her path, beacons and compasses, that through the darkness will show her the way to the light. So she teaches Mathematics, but she is taught even more in a school of lifelong learning, where her own teachers are her students, nature, books and friends. When she was little and she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she answered: "I want to be a teacher and travel." She managed these two and combines them by teaching her students the absolute law of the universe: "The journey is life in the youth!"

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Following the linear narrative, BEGINNING - MIDDLE - END, 290 Days in the Congo has a clear narrative structure that one might say is characteristic of travel literature. 290 days in which the reader becomes a fellow traveler and gets to know the African country through the eyes of Lena Proga.

- Niki Misailidis, fractalart.gr

Weight

0.5 kg

Writer

Eleni Proga

Pages

262

Size

14x21 cm

Publisher

Source Publications

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