It is only now that the pain has subsided enough to tell this story. On 18th May Christine and I visited Bukumbi. This is the site where the first missionaries to Tanganyika settled in 1883. They were French White Fathers and from these modest beginnings Christianity spread out across East Africa and, locally, a hospital, nursing college, schools and technical college (that our five would be motor mechanics attend) have developed. Outside the site of the first church there was a sign – a sign in two senses of the word. Surely this Scouser was about to be rewarded for venerating such a holy place? The events in Basel that evening sadly proved otherwise………………………… .