Welcome to my page. I want to do something different with this page. My yarns would be in pidgin English. For those who will want to learn pidgin English this would be a good avenue. About mysel: Dem born me some 35years ago. I be hussler. I sabi my job well well. I go skool for Unifasiti of NAIJA for Nsukka. I learn Matimatiks n Komputer 4 skool. I dey travel like river. I sabi speak Queens English,small Francais and i fit make some sentences 4 Chinese(shinko),Russian and Italo. I don go China,Japan,Ghana,Togo,Hong Kong. I go still travel this month. 4 [View Full Entry]

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OK, I'm posting this really late so some of these aren't terribly new, but here in Calabar 'tigs dey happen-o!' While most outgoing governors here are busy planning to leave the country, there is some nontrivial stuff being unveiled as Mr Duke prepares to leave office. Well done! [View Full Entry]

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Well, this isn’t exactly how I’d planned to write my blog, but unfortunately it’s the way it’s panned out! Lack of internet access, lack of bandwidth when you do have the internet (one dial-up connection shared between four people anybody??), and lack of electricity through constant power cuts over the last 6 weeks or so mean that its been impossible to keep up to date with this blog. So rather than try and kill myself writing up entry after entry now that I’ve eventually found an internet café, I’m going to scrap the hurried bits and pieces I’ve sta [View Full Entry]

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It is not a fair reflection on Nigeria that the subject I choose to write about for this particular blog is how I left the country. Yet leaving was the most entertaining part of an entertaining couple of weeks crossing this big bewildering nation. Nigeria was never a country high on my list of places to visit. It has even less tourist sights than its neighbouring West African countries, and even they don’t have many. But the highlight, as for all of Africa, and the reason why I keep coming back, is the people. Travelling through Africa you get used [View Full Entry]

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Linus Ita is an incredibly determined person. I certainly did not meet him by chance. This strongly built man with steadfast demeanor was attending every meeting related to renewable energy he could, committed to figuring out how to bring it to his un-electrified village. He had been doing so long before I came to this country. In 1998, Linus founded a community-based conservation society to promote practices that increase the quality of life in his village while preserving the rainforest that surrounded and sustained it. In this manner, they had implemented sustainable methods of organic [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, just a quick entry to let you know I'm alive and well. Having enjoyed the luxuries of air conditioning and pizza at Frankie's in Accra, and then the party atmosphere of Big Milly's on the coast in Ghana, things have been a bit less fun. For a start I was really ill as we left Ghana, I have never felt so sick in all my life. Thank god for all the lovely people on the trip with me who gave me sympathy and medical advice. I think I sampled every petrol station toilet between Accra and the Togo border [View Full Entry]

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some sites on the way to the village of nkwere (oon kwear eh) the christianity in eastern nigeria is total... the churches are huge and tons of busineses have christianity related names. notice things like the "god is good" painted on the motorcycle. the fact im athiest came out in a conversation, and they were nice about it tho totally unable to believe it. theyd go "so wow.... you dont go to church?" "...you still pray right?" most people had never met a nonchristian in their lives. never met a nonafrican. what a narrow view of what exists in this [View Full Entry]

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21 days in Nigeria kelsey wmy trip to nigeria with my bf of the time, Kachi, who was born and raised there. Dec 27th -- Jan 14th after just arriving in lagos, the largest city in nigeria, tho abuja is the capital [View Full Entry]

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It's been hard to give an update for a while as things are quickly changing: The project I was supposed to be involved with got caught up in World Bank bureaucracy. So I've been settling in nicely, meeting a lot of interesting people, and doing an eclectic collection of things while waiting for a new project to hopefully come about. One of those things being installing a solar system in my office which One Sky generously donated when they closed their office. If all goes well, we'll be opening up Calabar's first solar internet cafe soon! Here are a couple incredibly [View Full Entry]

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After realizing that I would be in Africa for 10 days, and that it would be mostly work without to much time to check the place out, I decided that I had to work some sort of adventure into our trip, namely driving from Accra to Lagos. We landed in Accra on Thursday, and were supposed to be there until Monday morning when we were supposed to fly in to Lagos. Before we had left the states I had check to see the distance between the cities as well as if there was anyone else on the WWW who had done [View Full Entry]

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