In Uganda it erected the first solar payphone, used by local fishermen, on Lake Victoria.
The day after that, Joseph cruises along the shores of Lake Victoria to Jinja.
For Theroux, the Lake Victoria crossing embodied the simple pleasure of independent travel.
By then, the virus had spread all the way to Lake Victoria, a thousand miles to the east.
So far the project's pilot phase has seen 19 stations established around Lake Victoria in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
More impressively, the cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria have generated 500 forms in about 14, 000 years (lakes are islands of water).
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The road would be part of a long-planned link between Tanzania's coast and Lake Victoria, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"It's very dangerous, " says Sam Kabonge, a fisherman from the Bugala island in Lake Victoria, a tropical patch of land boasting sandy shores and lush forests.
The Royal Ascot Goat Races, held at the Speke Resort on the shores of Lake Victoria, have been an annual Kampala tradition since 1993.
Gordon Wambi, director of an Aids testing programme in Lwak, near Lake Victoria, told the programme that he could not distribute condoms because of opposition from the Catholic Church.
Its isolated branch on a Lake Victoria island receives money from the sky: with no landing strip, planes drop bags of cash to be collected by staff and security guards.
Muwembe is part of a team testing a new mobile alert system aiming to improve the delivery of weather forecasts and help vulnerable fishing communities in Lake Victoria protect themselves from dangerous conditions.
Among other antics, he sent taunting telegrams to Britain's queen, declared himself king of Scotland, challenged the Tanzanian president to a boxing match, and staged a mock invasion of South Africa on an island in Lake Victoria.
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Newly enamored of the country since producing documentary "Albino United" --- about an albino football team in Tanzania -- in 2010, Broomfield is shooting his next feature film in the city of Mwanza on the shore of Lake Victoria in the north-west of the country.
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