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Last Saturday, my sister, my sister-in-law and I decided it was time to check out the fabrics at the Zinder market. Tabita wanted to come along, making it her first visit ever to the marketplace of Zinder, something she was pretty keen on!
The weather was beautiful that morning as it had rained all night. Rainy […]
With the rainy season in bloom, the garden is now full of greens. At first sight, the little plants popping up may look like insignificant weeds (or horse fodder), but on closer inspection, you will find Niger’s nature’s pantry right now in its most generous element. In addition to the hanza beans (whose fruits are […]
One might have thought that the rainy season would be more comfortable than warm season, but so far, it has not. When the sun shines, which is does quite a lot of the time, the heat is almost as bad as during the last part of warm season, except it’s a humid warmth.
The heavy clouds […]
I was waiting for ages for the rainy season to begin, and for the past few weeks, it’s been so hot that I thought it would never start. Then finally, a horizon full of heavy clouds appeared and it finally started to rain for real!
It rained for a whole night and half a day, which […]
As you probably all know by now, I love the Zinder bush. I love the contrast between the yellow sand, the red mud, the green trees and the often so blue sky. It’s serene and I can watch it for ages.
There’s something precious about the expanse, the ancient rocks and the handful of villages situated […]
Little Abdul was eating a mango by himself…
…when the kids saw Ishtar bring out the camera, and all of a sudden, there was no longer only one!
The superpose
Boys speak a universal boy language wherever they are
Aichatu, Adama and a brother
Laughter is contagious
Mina and a friend from another street
I realize […]
Life on Eden Street (2008)
I love Niger. I can’t always tell you why, but I just do. It’s a strange place. It’s different from most other places on earth. It lacks tempo and several other Western values that we seem to think of as general virtues these days; but it’s genuine and generous and I […]
This chronical was originally published in Bergens Tidende on april 28th. Entitled “Apologize, Egeland”, it was my response to Jan Egeland’s dead silence concerning his dealings with the Niger 2005 famine scam, a “famine” he was so involved with that he credited himself for having solved the entire issue. With Egeland having recently visited Niger […]
Where were you, twenty years ago?
This very day, twenty years ago, I was visiting the field station with my family to see the development of the new mud buildings that Eden was setting up in Dalli, 13 km south of Tanout city.
Although the buildings themselves were nice, the field station did not make that much […]
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