Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Nobody is currently trying to scam me in Nigeria. The number of police checkpoints, during daylight hours, is through the roof (it is hard to reach cruising speed before being gestured back over to the side of the road). But they do not require finesse, obeisance, gross dishonesty or undeserved gifts. They appear to be doing their jobs, just like those extra cops in the US that stand beneath traffic lights and waive their arms around in exactly the opposite direction. Tax dollars.
Kano doesn't have power during the daylight hours so we can't get work done on the computer. Also, Kano is draining. It's tiring just to breathe the air. It is the only city that so far deserves the description that our guide book has slapped on the back of every single other metropolitan center that we've passed through: horribly polluted, overcrowded and trash-strewn. We've got business to take care of here and it's been pleasant. People have been helpful and constitute the city's only charm.
Anyways. Thanks especially to you people who are commenting on the blogs and I'll get some updated writing for you hopefully before Cameroon.
Kano doesn't have power during the daylight hours so we can't get work done on the computer. Also, Kano is draining. It's tiring just to breathe the air. It is the only city that so far deserves the description that our guide book has slapped on the back of every single other metropolitan center that we've passed through: horribly polluted, overcrowded and trash-strewn. We've got business to take care of here and it's been pleasant. People have been helpful and constitute the city's only charm.
Anyways. Thanks especially to you people who are commenting on the blogs and I'll get some updated writing for you hopefully before Cameroon.
1 Comments:
Nate - Thanks for nothing. Kano was up there with the Seychelles, Fiji and Maldives on my list of have-to-visits. Now you've ruined everything.
You asked in the classroom for the most elaborate titles African leaders have given themselves. My personal favourite has to be Idi Amin's:
His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular (& later 'King of Scotland'!)
Brett
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You asked in the classroom for the most elaborate titles African leaders have given themselves. My personal favourite has to be Idi Amin's:
His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular (& later 'King of Scotland'!)
Brett
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