{{Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza is an intriguing man. He is a born again Christian and, indeed, his household is very religious. }}
His wife Denise is even more prayerful than her husband, and is an ordained pastor – the only African First Lady to hold such a high spiritual office.
Nkurunziza likes to take off for the countryside, where he gets a hoe and goes gardening. At every opportunity he exhorts the people of Burundi to grow and eat avocado fruits.
A sports-loving man, in his private time you will find him decked out in tracksuit. He also seems like a late-on-the-scene Michael Jackson fan, because he loves to wear white socks.
But perhaps his most maverick trait is that most times he travels with his own curtains! Sources close to Nkurunziza told Mail & Guardian Africa that he finds it hard to sleep if the lighting through the curtain is not of a particular type.
It seems that after many sleepless trips abroad, he took matters in his hands and decided to order his own curtains. It is possible that Nkurunziza is the only president in the world whose advance delegation measures the curtains.
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