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- By Stephanie McCrummen
- Photographs by Nichole Sobecki
- The Atlantic
It was high safari season in Tanzania, the long rains over, the grasses yellowing and dry.
Land Cruisers were speeding toward the Serengeti Plain.
Billionaires were flying into private hunting concessions.
And at a crowded and dusty livestock market far away from all that, a man named Songoyo had decided not to hang himself, not today, and…