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 […]

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Today has been a day of trivialities, where I have been doing a number of seemingly unimportant things that do not generate much inspiration for my part, but which needed to be done nevertheless. I wrestled with the KLM telephone system and finally managed to get through to right person, and got to confirm my […]

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I slept one hour last night, but I’m doing well. Had to be up at half past five, in order to appear live at quarter past seven this morning on God morgen Norge. It was a nice brief chat with Signe Tynning and Nils Gunnar Lie and I am left wondering what Norway is thinking.
The […]

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I just love this picture.

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The children of Tanout may well be the heirs of the least developed country in the world, but they are rich in fellowship and joy. Despite our great achievements, there is an equation here we have yet to learn from them.

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It is nearly morning and I am just back at the hotel, after having seen the very first (complete) preview of the TV2 documentary about the Niger “famine” in 2005. I really liked it (what a complex piece of work!) and it will be interesting to see how people respond to it. Mostly when we […]

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Ugo Daniels actually inspired this post, because his yam festival contribution in the past edition of the Beautiful Africa blog carnival it immediately made me think of a quote from Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart:
“Yam, the king of crops, was a man’s crop.”
As you have found out by now, there are millions […]

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