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Starting
in October 1994, Arthur traveled for four months across the breadth of
Africa from Senegal to the Indian Ocean. He traveled solo and usually
on back roads using local transportation: bus, taxi, camel and on foot.
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By
mid-November, he was in the desert-frontier town of Agadez, Niger. Because
of a violent rebellion against the government brought by the northern
desert tribes in Mali and Niger, travel was severely restricted.
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At
this critical juncture, Arthur hired a guide named Abba Kele. They traveled
with salt caravans through the Tenere Desert to an oasis northwest towards
Libya. From there they walked with one camel to Chad--a journey of nine
hundred miles.
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