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Category: Experiential
Rotten Lemons
When life gives you lemons, you can’t always make lemonade and you must not blame yourself for this.
The Trash Animals of Yola
Standing in the middle of this burning trash, and eating it, stand a wide variety of animals. Perhaps it could be expected to find trash pigs – but …
I Love Abuja
In the aftermath of the Nigerian-Biafra War, the Nigerian government sought to locate its capital in a location not predominated by any one ethnic group.…
On On
There are more than 200 of us. A handful are separate from us, running at speed on a different, longer, unmarked path around the back…
Harmattan
The harmattan is still hovering, and Lionel might not make it home. Wikipedia defines harmattan as “a cold-dry and dusty trade wind, blowing over the…
The Only White Man in Mubi, Part 3
Eventually morning comes, and if the streets were quiet for elections, they are even quieter today. The fact that it is Sunday has no real…
The Only White Man in Mubi, Part 2
After the voting patrols are finished, around 2 PM, we attend the Saturday \”peace prayer\” in which over two thousand men – yes entirely men…
The Only White Man in Mubi, Part 1
I don’t much like the title of this post, but if I wrote “The Only Bature in Mubi” you wouldn’t understand what I was talking…
Rumors and Surprises in DR Congo
Yesterday was quiet in Kinshasa, that is to say, an ordinary Sunday. Public taxis ran, and people walked in the streets holding their childrens’ han…