One of my USAID colleagues took us out to the Musée National Boubou Hama where we saw some pretty cool stuff (and some not so cool stuff). The examples of local tribal building styles and handicrafts was one thing, the supremely depressed state of the animals in the zoo portion of the exhibit was another.… Continue reading out and about in niamey
Month: October 2024
it’s been a year
Just over a year ago, we arrived in Niamey in the early afternoon and stared raptly out the window of the armored vehicle that picked us up from the airport. We drove 30 minutes through pretty moderate traffic to our new house, surrounded by a tall wall topped by razor wire. The social sponsor gave… Continue reading it’s been a year