by phil | May 17, 2012 | Europe
It’s going to be a couple months before I drink a Drogba – the local name of the near-liter-sized Bock Ivorian beer. I can salivate over the photo in the mean time. I leave tonight for Lisbon. A lot of people — Malian friends in particular —...
by phil | May 14, 2012 | Cote D'Ivoire, Mali, Stories
In Bambara, Sama = Elephant I have spent approximately 110 hours of my life on the road between Bamako and Abidjan. I first took the trip in October of 2010. At that time, the northern half of Cote d’Ivoire was controlled by the Forces Nouvelles and it was the...
by phil | May 2, 2012 | Biz, Cote D'Ivoire
An “illegal distribution of power” in Yopougon, Abidjan. Quick update: I was supposed to fly to Mali on Monday. The flight was canceled due to a cloud of martian-like dust in Bamako. It would have been the second time I flew into Bamako during a coup, or...
by phil | Apr 23, 2012 | Biz, Cote D'Ivoire
This picture was taken one month ago. See the end of the post for what the maisonette/store house/office looks like now We officially launched our business a couple of months ago, but it was last week that we started operating at capacity (see this post for the early...
by phil | Apr 9, 2012 | Mali
Karate class at Palais de la Culture in Bamako For a bit of background on the political crisis in Mali, please see my last post. UPDATE: Yesterday, the details of the ECOWAS accord were released and they are not promising. Most notably, Sanogo is not going anywhere....
