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Background: Not until 1993, 33 years after independence from France, did Niger hold its first free and open elections. A 1995 peace accord ended a five-year Tuareg insurgency in the north. Coups in 1996 and 1999 were followed by the creation of a National Reconciliation Council that effected a transition to civilian rule by December 1999. Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world with minimal government services and insufficient funds to develop its resource base. The largely agrarian and subsistence-based economy is frequently disrupted by extended droughts common to the Sahel region of Africa.

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By tamaffa
November 29th 2005

francophonie games

Africa » Niger

the francophonie games are coming to niger 7th-17th of december a lasting evidence of french colonialism, countries once under, and still associated with french rule send athletes for a kind of mini olympics. the stadium is right down the street from us and we can go and watch rehersals for the dance troupes at night, quite exciting we got invited to be in a dance but considering we've only had 1 dance lesson i think we'll have to politely decline all of the walls are getting hastily white washed, a women's group sponsored a whole bunch of old oil drums to [View Full Entry]

By tamaffa
November 14th 2005

burkina trip(waylaid a little)

Africa » Niger

Burkina Faso what used to be Haute Volta is west of niger it is a lot greener, they have two rainy seasons, and a lot more developed. they have public trash cans, lots more permanent buildings and bushes in the middle-of-the-road medians. people, men, are a lot more forward in there walk by "hey how's it going" accosting methods. and two particuler individuals accused the whole group of us of racism after we had been seemingly having a nice conversation, he then threatened handu with a rock, dropping it and laughing and his friend grabbed my wrist and seethed some choice [View Full Entry]

By tamaffa
October 28th 2005

purse snatching

Africa » Niger

walking with yussef, who was wearing a white bubu outfit, it was 8:20 P.M. just outside the C.F.C.A., we were going to get a solani, yogurt in a bag. There was a guy across the street praying in the roadside mosque, but otherwise the street was pretty empty, it being the last prayer of the day. No taxis, the usual crowd near the food vendor, we were passing the biker-bar-next-door and i thought it was odd that this guy was stepping off the street up the curb towards me instead of making more room, and, ZIPPP with a quick yank, my [View Full Entry]

By tamaffa
October 21st 2005

it's so hot...

Africa » Niger

that when farida tells me tuesday was 120 degrees and wednesday was 115 i am incredulous cause i thought it wasn't that bad. [View Full Entry]

By tamaffa
October 21st 2005

homestay week

Africa » Niger

this week was homestay with our nigerien families i was with Madam Rabi and her two teenage daughters Samira and Lafisa and their cousin/helper Saratu. they lived in a tiny compound with an outside concrete courtyard with a toilet and place to "shower." all the cooking happened outside on two stands with fire underneath. inside was just two rooms, maybe ten by ten each. the from room had the t.v. a big shelf armoir thing a little table and the chairs and the back room had a big bed and was mostly storage since they sleep outside when it's the hot [View Full Entry]

By tamaffa
October 21st 2005

snippets of my trip to agadez and konni

Africa » Niger

so we went to Agadez and Konni a couple of weeks ago now and i was hoping that i would have a big blog, or lots of little ones of what i saw, but school and homestay and just living here has taken more time than i thought making it difficult to fill y'all in, but here are some images that will hopefully give you an inkling/preview of what i (hopefully) will elaborate on soon... Agadez is in the north of niger, a 14 hour drive that we did in two days on terrible roads in our sweltering hot van, the [View Full Entry]

By tamaffa
October 14th 2005

on going to school in niamey

Africa » Niger

before going to class don't forget: chalk a bucket of water and a sponge for erasing a cup and a pitcher of water for the teacher the key to the classroom in the building fifty feet from where we live having class in the classroom is the best; there are four office style desks, cushy chairs, a view of the mini village with mini fields behind our place and AIR CONDITIONING that gets too cold sometimes oddly enough. teachers answer their cell phones during class Addo, my culture and society of niger prof. answered his one day "Allo monsier ministre!" in [View Full Entry]

By tamaffa
October 9th 2005

on softball tournaments in niamey...

Africa » Niger

so it's the mini hot season here in niger and we played in a softball tournament this weekend. whoo we had a game in the heat of the day yesterday on a dilapadated field that just emanated heat. and our pitchers couldn't pitch so they were very lonnnnnng innings. we were in the social leauge and got beat by three teams of kids and the peace corps team from burkina faso but we got on the board and made good plays(a double play by me, oh yea) and HAD FUN! one of the teams of kids had this tiny third baseman [View Full Entry]

By tamaffa
September 27th 2005

on eating in niamey...

Africa » Niger

a typical meal day for us: bread from the guy at the end of the driveway with jam, butter, nutella, or peanut butter or oatmeal(quaker) with tea with condensed milk bissou and soumana make our lunches and dinners everyday except sunday they do mostly american things, only one or two truly nigerien dishes tuna melts for lunch and pizza for dinner hummus and pitas couscous and sauce crepes lots of salad beans and rice is a big favorite today we went to yazi dogo's house, the afore mentioned super famous nigerien actor who appointed our nigerien names who just got back [View Full Entry]

By tamaffa
September 27th 2005

on going to the bathroom in niamey...

Africa » Niger

if you're lucky the toilet will be a porcelein lined hole in the floor with convenient non-skid foot places if you're unlucky, it'll be a hole in the ground they're usually open to the air if it's at someones house there's always a plastic teapot for washing afterwards in various colors; blue and white stripes, green and white, yellow and blue there's no toilet paper ever our house has flush toilets so when we're out we have to hold everything but pee today at yazi dogo's house, a widely known nigerien actor who gave us our nigerien names, there was a [View Full Entry]

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