Our friendly correspondant in Bamako Mali, Michael Albert, has sent forth a series of images to be shared. I’ll post one each day this week, and I’m telling you I’ll save the best for last.
Michael in Mali part 1: Arrival
Michael in Mali part 2: Moto Yamaha
Michael in Mali part 3: Chez Moi
It has been almost three weeks and I am already finding myself at home and comfortable in this little African city of Bamako. ‘Tu-es chez toi ici’ says a friendly local handing me half of his tasty orange. Familiar faces with waving hands and raised thumbs as I whizz through my neighborhood on my little [...]
by Michael Albert.
Despite how strange it looked to passerbys, I circled L’Institute Nationale de Recherche en Santé Public a dozen times while three Malians give me the thumbs up and said ‘lentement, lentement’ (slowly, slowly) each time I passed them at the front gates. Finally, I made it onto the road on my new Yamaha [...]
by Michael Albert.
This seems to be all I can really take in so far, entering a new and strange land:
a mud mosque here, two young men pushing an old peugot there, a small food stand, a large run-down billboard, dirt, rain, mud…
the strangely familiar sound of Islamic advertising over passing loudspeakers, children playing in [...]
