Mike Munden/For the Columbus Dispatch
The farming feel of the African nation where Dee Salukombo grew up was not so different from the rural atmosphere surrounding Denison University, except for those land mines, the fear of being maimed by machete and the threat of massacre.
Other than that …
Living in war-torn Eastern Africa in the late 1990s and early 2000s was like dashing across an interstate at rush hour. Maybe you make it. Maybe you don’t.
Today, things are improved in Kirotshe, a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo where Salukombo was born and lived for about five years before eventually escaping with his family to Uganda, then emigrating to Cleveland at age 15.
Improvement, however, is relative. The genocide in neighboring Rwanda — a short distance from Kirotshe...
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