My version of the year 2012 in review: 7 April

I was in Zanzibar to attended the official ceremony to mark Karume Day, the 39th anniversary of the assassination of Zanzibar's founding president, Sheikh Abedi Amani Karume.

The year before I avoided sitting near the front and sat at the end of the hall, with the benefit of a wall to lean against. This year one of the protocol officers at the event insisted that I sit near the front and I spent the duration of the event shifting the weight from one side of the seat of my pants to the other.

Other posts from the 2012 review series:
http://madarakanyerere.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-version-of-year-2012-in-review-26.html
http://madarakanyerere.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-version-of-year-2012-in-review-15_13.html