It took 2-1/2 days of bouncing along pot-holed roads in a 4x4 to get to the town in Uganda where the egg-stepping ceremony was to take place. We finally arrived, covered in dust, an hour before the ceremony's royal dancers began their raucous display. Then a chorus of men wryly sang about two of the region's worst problems: "If only the guns could get AIDS" - then the war would end. And finally, lying on my stomach in the dust, with my camera poised, I got to see the first ex-rebel stomping on an egg - an act that symbolizes breaking open a new life and, at last, being welcomed home.
– Abraham McLaughlin
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