Child Camel Jockey

And the presence of beverages always kept the tone easy and social, even when the subtext of the discussion was quite serious. It was just like my father had said: БЂњYou never invite a man without a beer.БЂ«FOUR ON AUGUST 8, 1993, a new radio station went on the air. It called itself Radio-Tц©lц©vision Libre des Mille Collines. I would come to wish that the name of this station wasnБЂ™t so similar to that of my beloved hotel. The station broadcast at 106 on the FM dial and called itself by the call letters RTLM, in the American style. It billed itself as the very first private radio station in the country, and it was an immediate sensation. It started by playing Congolese music virtually nonstop. I am not a man who particularly likes to dance, but even I can tell you that this is a fun, bouncy, energetic type of music to which you cannot help but move your feet a little. RTLM then started to broadcast a few human voices, like a shy child finding its courage. The disk jockeys began to talk more. Then they started telling mildly dirty jokes ...»