week 126

 

Mon: Sugar in disguise is present in everyday food from the obvious tart pastry to the potato chips bag.

Tue: How different the new millennium has treated Ethiopia and neighboring Somalia; one from famine to economic boom, the other from maritime commerce to endless war.

Wed: Seeing the ferry from Dakar to Ziguinchor stopping again at a brand new docking platform on the fluvial island of Caravan in Casamance river delta gives hope of recovery to the entire region.

Thu: Baobab quasi-eternal trees are the perfect picture for the mother continent in its nurturing of all type of living creatures from tiny insects and small mammals to huge vultures.

Fri: “Manos Unidas” NGO work in rural Casamance rebuilding schools made the teacher armed with a blackboard and chalk to cry, “we have it all”. One year student tuition: 15 euros!