me, with bike, almost out onto the main road...note: after 3 days in the bush - we'd only lost our license plate - and our heat guard (but at least that was in my hands...!)
3-hour tour: Part IV (finale!) January 9th 2006 Emerging from the bush:
We awoke in Niafunke with a plan for getting safely - forget soundly - back to Douentza (which now seemed like an imaginary haven - save the fact all of our stuff was there!).
The night before, I had asked the bargeman to find us someone to follow all the way back to ‘civilization’ - or rather - just to the other side of all of these tributaries (to give you an idea ... read more
Africa » Mali The Sudanese Republic and Senegal became independent of France in 1960 as the Mali Federation. When Senegal withdrew after only a few months, what formerly made up the Sudanese Republic was renamed Mali. Rule by dictatorship was brought to a close in... ... read more
making a documentary about the role of musicians in the crisis in Mali and the Sahel:
www.sahelcalling.com
facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sahel-Calling-A-catalyst-film-for-action-in-Mali-the-Sahel/323785747716676?ref=hl
would like to unite some of us bloggers around this!
also figuring out how to put my pen to good use...
and figuring out how to live in berlin and dakar at the same time, with a whiff of brooklyn...
and trying to slow the pace at which my world is webbed...let us not forget how close we are...tug tug.
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