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IMAGES 2 4 Oct 2007 | 11:10 am
Hey hey… a new blog entry? I thought he was dead. Oh no… I just got back to Ouaga from almost three months of festival-going in the rest of West Africa (stories soon… one hopes), and I thought I’d cel...
IMAGES 1 21 May 2007 | 04:19 am
Here are some pics from various masked dance performances I’ve seen throughout Burkina in the past three months. Most are Bwa, Nunama, and Winiama styles and represent spirits of the bush in some form...
FEB 14 – MAR 9 21 May 2007 | 04:01 am
Ah, memories… it was more than three months ago, when… February 14: I picked up Adam Dow at the airport late that night. The airport had somehow metamorphosized into a state-of-the-art facility since...
JAN 10 – FEB 13 22 Mar 2007 | 11:41 pm
Okay, where was I?… Oh, just two and a half months ago… January 10: Getting out of Dogon country was only part of getting to Timbuktu. I didn’t know where to find a 4×4 in Mopti, and ended up waiting...
JAN 5-9 20 Feb 2007 | 09:51 pm
January 5-6: I really like border crossings… something about the frontier, points unknown, grim looks of bored border guards, inexplicable rules and regulations, it all adds up to adventure. After pas...
DEC 16 – JAN 5 8 Feb 2007 | 04:46 am
Welcome back to the most poorly updated blog in cyberspace! At least this time I have the enviable excuse of having been all the way out in Timbuktu… December 16-19: The madness of the Dialogues de C...
NOV 10 – DEC 15 24 Dec 2006 | 11:43 pm
Season’s Greetings from your old pal, Samta Claus. Your present this year is another update that should hopefully catch us up before I run off to the West and Mali for a spell. After a month in the do...
NOV 5 – 8 12 Dec 2006 | 03:07 am
November 5 – I escaped Bobo that morning for Banfora, Burkina’s 4th or 5th largest town, a nexus for trade across the Ivorian border, and a tourist destination nestled in an area of relative natural b...
OCT 30 – NOV 4 30 Nov 2006 | 06:40 am
We finally get to some real adventure in the following post, so hold on to your socks! October 30 – Even though there isn’t much performance activity out there right now, I shipped out to west Burkin...
HEALTH 1 18 Nov 2006 | 03:10 am
Yay! We finally have time for a quick personal health update! Anyone who has traveled in the ‘third world’ knows that health is one of the most exciting parts of any sojourn here. I was close to calli...
