Soundtrack: Roger Waters – Three Wishes
Give a smile or a handshake to the African people and you will get a thousands back. After you have travelled for some while in Africa you really understand why it is not as developed as one could wish. If we had the same kind of enviroment back home, and the [...]
Soundtrack: Tool – Lateralus
Things you normally take for granted in the Western world such as electricity and running water are not always available here in Africa. We have at least three to five power failures during the day and more often tap water is not present.
What I bet you don’t want to live your life as [...]
Soundtrack: Lou Reed – Just A Perfect Day
The muslim people here in West Africa seems to be very nice and there doesn’t seem to be any extremism regarding religion. They are very open minded where ever I go, even the women are well respected. It also happens that you see muslim people drinking at the bars. Not exactly what you many other [...]
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Soundtrack: Pink Floyd – Mother
The final goal was near for my Greek friend Aggelos aka Cookie as Banjul was within a day of reach. Things took quit a dramatic change when arriving at the Senegalese border. The day before I was on the Diama Dam piste for 3 hours trying to get to the one of two borders into Senegal from north. It [...]
Sorry folks, but the Internet connection here at Dr. David Z. Levine’s place is terrible, more lazy than the four knots ferry from Barra to Banjul. But I will try to give you an update on the way down from Spain to lovely Banjul.
“Toubab” is a Central and West African name for a person of European, [...]
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