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After an early lunch and a very enjoyable ride through Tanout endless landscape, we arrived at Eden’s field station, which is situation 13 km south of Tanout city (140 km north of Zinder), in the northernmost Nigerien agriculture zone.
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One of the many things I love about Niger is how people value fellowship. Time in the country of “sei hakuri” (have patience) does not equal money. Here, people live according to a different set of social rules, and do not see spending time with one another as unfruitful. Being together is one of the […]
After a week of long hours at the office, I took out the horses three times during the weekend, spending all together about six hours of my time on horseback. It was wonderful! On Saturday morning, I rode out with my sister-in-law, and then in the afternoon, I rode out to the track with my […]
Yesterday, I had my first trip to the field station after my return from Sweden in March, and it was great! It’s surprising how easily I miss the landscape - the vast horizon, the red soil with the sunny colored sand, disrupted by little dots of green shrubs and bushes - and all set against […]
My dad is in Niger for the time being, which is allowing us Garvis to catch up on precious family time!
Here is Tabita and her aunt spending half a siesta in her grandfather’s pool. It was soooo nice, and thanks to her grandfather’s efforts (and a pool that is too deep for her to stand […]
I offered you my all
And I think my heart went to live with you
For it now speaks a language only you two understand
It talks of things I do not know by name
And comes to realizations that I cannot explain
It breaks into a song to which I know no tunes
But which I wish so desperately I […]
Births are important events in Niger. The celebration that occurs on the seventh day after the birth of a baby (also known as a “souna”) reflects the joy that every newborn child brings. Sounas are one of the four major social highlights in Niger (next to Tabaski, Ramadan and marriages). As I was working that […]
Today is the Journée de la concorde, national holiday in Niger, and there will be great races at the track. I’m won’t be able to participate as I am going to field station this afternoon (and Ali won’t be able to participate either because he has a souna!), but I did go on Saturday and […]
Famine food is supposed to refer to food that is consumed in times of great need and which can act as a indication of famine or extreme difficulties, but more often than not, famine food is a derogative expression for local food in remote places that rest of the world knows little or nothing about. […]
When I was walking home from work yesterday, Jamila & Aichatu, two of my little friends on Eden Street, came up to me and asked me if I could please take a picture of them. Of course, I couldn’t resist them, but as soon as I got out the camera, the smiles disappeared - as […]
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