This won't seem like much to most, but it was one of those moments for me.
The flight from Bujumbura, Burundi to Nairobi, Kenya would be stopping in Kigali, Rwanda for about 45 minutes. I had been reading Emmanuelle Katongole's A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination for the first leg, and as we sat on the tarmac in Kigali I made eye contact with my seatmate and smiled.
"May I see the book you're reading?"
"Sure."
He spent some time carefully going through the table of contents, then excitedly showed it to his friend who was seated directly in front of him. Then he turned back to me.
"This looks very interesting. Where can I get a copy?"
I explained to him that it was available on Amazon, which I knew wouldn't do him much good as they don't ship to Africa.
"But I'm going to Sudan for many months."
Ah, I see. I made an instant decision.
"You can have that copy."
And so, sitting on the ground in Rwanda, en route from Burundi to Kenya, I gave my copy of A Future for Africa to a Burundian brother who was on his way to Sudan.
Seemed about right.
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