My friend Stanley, after a hard day's work

Have you ever seen a Bill Murray movie subtitled in Arabic?

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March 13th 2006
There's one playing right now in this Internet cafe where I'm writing in Burkina Faso. It's the one where he has to transport an elephant somewhere. What's going on? Where am I? Right, so I'm in Burkina Faso, a small Francophone country to the north of Ghana. This journal is going to be short, I think, but I was really eager to post something from a country other than Ghana. It will be short i ... read more

Africa » Burkina Faso

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Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) achieved independence from France in 1960. Repeated military coups during the 1970s and 1980s were followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s. Burkina Faso's high population density and limited natural res... ... read more