Field Notes IV: A man named Frog

The baffling joys of conducting interviews.

I’m listening back to a recording I took last Thursday of an unexpected meeting with a retired politician who, for over an hour, spun a history of military conquest of mythical proportions involving Rwandan kings, Mukiga warlords, fierce Batwa warriors, and his own great-grandfather. There is magic and strategy in equal measures and the story pokes its …