With the conference over, we accepted an opportunity to visit Marianne in a village 90 km outside of Cotonou (northwest,…
Songhai is about 40 km away from our hotel, just outside the nearby town ( and capital of Benin) of…
Today I visited Songhai, a 25-year-old community, business and experiment in African entrepreneurship. The Songhai website has a much more…
As we tried to get our mobile phones to work in Benin, we learned a number of things: New SIM…
Not feeling like getting in another taxi or bus, we decided to spend the day wandering around Cotonou. We needed…
Today we took the ABC bus to from Accra to Cotonou. The bus cost was 79 cedi each (about $40).…
We were a bit more adventurous today. We were reminded of our friends in Turkey who once told us “if…
Saturday and Sunday night we are couchsurfing with a generous local host Aba. Aba’s family is from the Cape Coast…
I’m in denial. The reality started to sink in when we landed, but it hasn’t really sunk in yet. We…
When we were on our trip, I often found it difficult to get my hands on English books. When they…