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Rosamond Halsey Carr was born in the USA in 1912 and died in 2006. She married English adventurer Kenneth Carr in 1942 and, in 1949, followed him to the Congo where the pair settled on a small farm. However, it did not work out for the couple and Rosamond Halsey Carr took up an offer to work alone as the manageress of a small farm in Rwanda. In 1954, she bought the place and her business grew increasingly prosperous. In the early 1960s, she decided to stay in Rwanda and to ride out the storm of instability and political change in the region. Against all odds, she managed to continue trading activities in the new independent Rwanda until she was forced out of the country during the 1994 genocide. Back in Rwanda, she transformed her farm into an orphanage but was eventually expelled by rogue mititia men who wrecked the property in the late 1990s.
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