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Across Africa in a VW Bus: Covering Coups, Famine, and the "Oneness of Love" || Barry Maughan
What does it mean to truly witness history?
Barry Maughan spent more than 40 years as an international broadcast journalist, covering the coup that overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie and the devastating famine in Ethiopia's northern province of Wollo . He was one of a handful of foreign journalists embedded in Ethiopia during those tumultuous days, reporting from the front lines of history .
But his story goes beyond journalism.
Between tours of duty, Barry and his wife drove 8,000 miles from Alexandria, Egypt to Cape Agulhas, South Africa — in a 1969 Volkswagen Kombi bus named Bridget — with…
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