by phil | Sep 19, 2017 | Stories
I saw this picture while reading Boubacar Sangaré’s moving tribute to Boukary. I remember when I first saw the image on Boukary’s blog, Quand le Village se Reveille. It is the perfect picture of him, at peace in the village, learning and discovering things...
by phil | Sep 12, 2017 | Stories
First off, thank you to everyone that shared and contributed to the fundraiser to get Boukary to Tunis. Unfortunately, the tumor on his liver was more complex than what was revealed by the original scan in Bamako, and they were unable to operate. This was devastating...
by phil | Aug 25, 2017 | Stories
If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you have probably heard me talk about Boukary Konate. I first met him in 2011 after communicating with him online for a number of months. We ate 50 cent brochettes in Bistro Bafing and talked about Bamanankan, the...
by phil | Jul 3, 2017 | Stories
We arrived back in Mali from our jakarta trip at the end of February. I haven’t posted much – or at all – since then, and I don’t have time to write something significant so this post will be mostly visual. Andre turned 8-months-old yesterday....
by phil | May 23, 2017 | Guinea-Conakry, Mali, W. Africa
This is the fifth installment in a series of posts about our scooter trip around West Africa. If you need to catch up: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. We were on our way to Doucki, a village in the Fouta Djallon, a region of the Guinean highlands populated largely by...
