Goumori revisited
We spent some time last week back in Goumori, visiting friends in the region’s Fulani camps.
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Mopti and Downstream on the Niger
These handmade wooden vessels chug up and down the Niger river with loads of rice, millet, cement, flour, gasoline, or just about anything that’s needed further inland. The boat was staffed with two drivers, a captain, a handyman, an engine operator, and two cook girls.
Timbuktu
It was a quick ride in a 4×4 taxi to get to the fabled city of Timbuktu. We unloaded the taxi and were promptly welcomed by a couple of obnoxious police officers with bloated egos.
Village Miscellany
My favorite tea shop. You can get black tea, chocolate tea, or coffee tea (nescafe). For munchies, there is bread, and mayonnaise. Sometimes scrambled eggs. The smiley guy who runs this place is one of my good village buddies, but I don’t know his name. Everybody just calls him Tea Man. Outside the tea shop. [...]
The Pulaku Project
