From my neighbourhood’s kids.
Archive for December 2008
Happy Christmas from Bamenda, Cameroon.
December 18, 2008Bad night blues
December 16, 2008I received a group email today from the VSO online community people. It included a link to a VSO forum thread that is making some attempt to catalogue the many VSO bloggers across the world. I was on that list. It seems pertinent then, because of the traffic headed my way, that I write something [...]
Scotched
December 16, 2008On only my second full day in Cameroon I was on the bus travelling up to Bamenda from the capital when we stopped and the usual bunch of hawkers got on. There were lots of fruit to be had and the usual flour-based deep fried things. But nothing too appetising sounding. And then this guy [...]
Not flash
December 16, 2008Everyone has USB flash drives here. Often it’s because they don’t have their own computer so it’s a way of storing information as they go from machine to machine . Often the internet is down or not available so this way they can easily transfer data without emailing it. The USBs often include photo collections, [...]
None of us have the moral high ground.
December 13, 2008I work for an apolitical organisation. That is among the reasons I don’t tend to blog political comment – but it’s far from the only one. Another is the fact that this is not my country. My opinion in that respect is not only, most likely ill-informed, but it is not coloured by history and [...]
