The Web and the leaf offer lessons

Editor's note: Over the past two years, the China-Africa Press Center, which is based in Beijing, has invited two groups of journalists from more than 10 African countries to China to participate in a variety of media events and witness firsthand the changes going on in China. Here, some of them share their experiences and views with China Daily.

'No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

This quote from Chinese writer and inventor Lin Yutang (1895-1976) sums up my recent travels to China under the umbrella of the China Public Diplomacy Association. The benefits of the trip came after reporting back for duty in my native Tanzania.