Burundi has a complicated, but also kind of beautiful relationship with the sport of running.
In 2014 Burundi banned jogging.
The ban was a little surprising, since the president who passed it was a former PE teacher, a huge football fan, and a football buff.
That made me want to investigate more about Burundi’s jogging clubs. Turns out they’ve been pretty significant sources for solidarity and social support.
(Much of what I learned stems from Peter Frick Wright’s story in Outside Magazine several years ago. To my knowledge, the ban is no longer active.)