by phil | Jul 4, 2023 | thoughts
Do I want to wade into these waters? Not really. I have relatively flimsy toubab-in-Mali credentials to be talking about pan-Africanist critiques of the neocolonial order. But maybe someone can help me see something that I’m missing. By now you may have heard...
by phil | Jun 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
I don’t know how to articulate this thing that happened. My original email to the person in question may be enough. Hopefully it’s comprehensible: It’s pretty insane and probably not believable, but I will tell you what happened. The other day I was...
by phil | Jun 15, 2023 | thoughts
“TIA” – this is Africa. Seasoned travelers, country counters and a certain class of expats adore this phrase. I regret to say that I may have used it at one point in my life. Thankfully I have suppressed those memories long enough to not know when...
by phil | Jun 6, 2023 | Senegal
It’s not lost on me that we left Mali because of all the question marks around the political and security situation and we are now getting phone calls from friends in Mali asking if we are OK over here in Senegal. We are indeed ok. In the village of Somone, you...
by phil | Jun 5, 2023 | Stories
We have long advertised an ambitious 10-week – now 3-month – trip from Dakar to Cape Town on our website. Matt did the trip himself in 2018 and we were all set to have our first clients in 2020. You know the rest of that story. Since then, we didn’t...
