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On Monday, we went back to the field station to continue the work that was started some ten days ago.
Image from September 11th 2007
Although I love the field station when its green, I love it just as much when it the grass is dry and many of the trees has shred their leaves. It is […]
On Sunday, I went to the race track with another expat. I had asked Ali to ride Arwen straight to the track, and then Tom (who rides an ex race horse by the name Luke) and I took the longer detour through the Zinderien bush, which gives the best of both riding worlds…
It was the […]
Yesterday’s post about the Niger 2004-05 Famine Scam debate going in Norway has been updated with the following link:
Norwegian People’s Aid goes self-critical, published in Bergens Tidende on May 3rd, 2008
It is an interview with Petter Eide, the secretary general of the Norwegian People’s Aid whom after the Tabloid debate that followed the day after […]
We are going back to the field station today to finish off the work that was started when we were there last.
Will probably have some nice pictures to blog about when we come back.
In the meantime, I leave you with a fresh picture for the field taken by an Eden field worker as he […]
There’s a fresh debate going on in Norway right, touching right into the heart of aid politics. It all started with a chronicle I wrote that was published in Bergens Tidende on April 28th, entitled Be om unnskyldning, Egeland.
Here are a few quotes from the chronicle that translates to ‘Egeland, you owe an apology‘:
…for despite […]
In the Western world, the notion of civilization is mostly focused around technological success, but in the least developed area in the poorest country in the world (that would be Tanout, yes), you will find a world totally different from your own. Here, people have time for each other, the poor laugh and the children […]
I promised I’d take you back to the track at some point during the two week long horse racing event that is taking place in Zinder right now. Horses have arrived from all over Niger and the following weeks mark the end of this year’s official Nigerien racing season. After two weeks from now, the […]
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 […]
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