Once upon a time in an African country, there was a lord who lived in a white castle on the top of a mountain. He was the child of two religions, Christian and Muslim, his mother was a Kom princess and his Fulani father, was a small land owner. Our lord was a self made […]
Working with adversity
Almost any time of day while I am sitting at my laptop in my tiny unfurnished house, the electric is shutting down and my fluorescent bulb blinks on and off. I finally put a flashlight next to my computer so I don’t fumble around in the dark . Yesterday the power went off at 1 […]
Good deeds and bad government
A friend of mine challenged me the other day after reading my last two blog entries, to write some of the good stuff that I have experienced during the last several weeks I have been living in this rural African village. So I sat down and searched for positive comments and complied my list. One […]
the NGO conspiracy
Watching the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti on television, I was fascinated by the number of aid groups or NGOs that had already been working in this poor almost forgotten country. And yet with all the financial support that had been given over the years by ngos, the people were still struggling in extreme […]