The Bangui Magnetic Anomaly refers to a variation in the Earth's magnetic field centered at Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. 

I wrote a story with the same name in response to a friend's question—what is a day like in the life of an aid worker in Central Africa?

The article was written, beer soaked and sunburnt on a back porch, under the cumulative effects of constant low-grade warfare. Magnetism refers to the desire to understand humanity. The anomaly was that it entailed conflict. In Bangui in 2014. 

I tucked into the correct latitudes, paid for experience with sanity, managed to hold out, albeit only for a year, and bore witness to the world. But the world was gazing back. And it knew what it saw.

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