I was invited during the Xmas holidays 2004, by one of my students to visit her home in Bukoba, which is a small old town at the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

Bukoba is a medium-sized town of about 80,000 people on the western shores of Lake Victoria, the "Eye of Africa", Africa's largest lake and source of the Nile river. Bukoba is located in the Kagera district in the northwest of Tanzania, which also borders Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

A bus to Kampala, Uganda takes six hours. Flights to Dar es Salaam are ... (more)