Life on the run for a refugee who can't go home to Burundi
A precocious child caught up in an African civil war became a soldier, fled his homeland and has now begun to achieve his dream of academic success in SA
20 October 2019 - 00:00
It was during lunch break, while attending research workshops at Unisa in the dying days of winter, that I ran out of words to maintain the conversation with my fellow student Zenon Ndayisenga. “I should visit you in Burundi soon and see a bit of the Great Lakes region,” I said, not meaning it (although I could imagine myself lubricating my oesophagus with a cold beer at sunset on the banks of Lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura)...
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