It happened to me in 2003 on my first trip to Africa. And again in ‘04, ‘05, ‘06, and twice in ‘07. Once you experience Africa, it infects you with the ceaseless urge to go back. Evidently, this infection has reached Matt Damon, too. In this month’s Condé Nast Traveller:
MATT DAMON’S BIG IDEA—THAT EUREKA moment during a journey when you see something or have a conversation with someone and you are, for an instant, touched and in some way transformed—came in Zambia. He was there in 2006 with DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa), the rock star-activist Bono’s organization, wondering how he might put his own celebrity muscle to the best use.
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