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Kalamashaka curse? From Sweden stage to ‘chilled’ Dandora slums

Kalamashaka [Photo: Courtesy]

What is the distance from Umea, Sweden, to Dandora, Nairobi?

Google will tell you that it is about 12, 500 kilometres, via Europe and the Trans Saharan highway; and 783 days’ hard walk, (going by the walking world record of one George Meegan); crossing through Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, the Ukraine, Belarus, the Russian Federation, before finally taking the Finnish ferry at Vaasa to get to the finish line of Umea.

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