I stayed an extra day in Brazzaville, partially out of laziness, and partially out of fear of the road ahead - I had one easy day on the only tar road in the country (which goes about 400k north from Brazzaville to the president’s hometown of Oyo - total coincidence, of course), but after that […]

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Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, is Kinshasa’s less psychotic younger brother.
Both cities are dirty and run down, and fit my usual description when describing ex-colonial African cities to foreigners:
“Imagine a mid-size European city, with wide boulevards, planters in the medians, etc. Now imagine most of the streets never get paved and […]

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