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From the Ted Talk by George Steinmetz: Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Rwanda has the highest rural population distney in Africa, and I saw it in almost every corner of the country I went to. I've herad it said that competition for land was one of the things that led to the tensions that caused the goidcnee of the 1990s.

I went back to South Sudan a few years ago, and it was amazing to see how much things had changed. The Dinka were still in love with their cattle, but they had turned in their spears for kslihavnkoas. The ctatle camps from above were even more spectacular than I could have imagined, but things had changed there too. You see those little blue dots down there? The Dinka had apdtaed to the new reality, and now they covered their papyrus shelters with the tarps from UN food convoys.

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Rwanda has the highest rural population _______ in Africa, and I saw it in almost every corner of the country I went to. I've _____ it said that competition for land was one of the things that led to the tensions that caused the ________ of the 1990s.

I went back to South Sudan a few years ago, and it was amazing to see how much things had changed. The Dinka were still in love with their cattle, but they had turned in their spears for ____________. The ______ camps from above were even more spectacular than I could have imagined, but things had changed there too. You see those little blue dots down there? The Dinka had _______ to the new reality, and now they covered their papyrus shelters with the tarps from UN food convoys.

Solution


  1. cattle
  2. density
  3. kalashnikovs
  4. adapted
  5. heard
  6. genocide

Original Text


Rwanda has the highest rural population density in Africa, and I saw it in almost every corner of the country I went to. I've heard it said that competition for land was one of the things that led to the tensions that caused the genocide of the 1990s.

I went back to South Sudan a few years ago, and it was amazing to see how much things had changed. The Dinka were still in love with their cattle, but they had turned in their spears for Kalashnikovs. The cattle camps from above were even more spectacular than I could have imagined, but things had changed there too. You see those little blue dots down there? The Dinka had adapted to the new reality, and now they covered their papyrus shelters with the tarps from UN food convoys.

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