This, a press release from the NGO run by Bobby’s good friend Quat. I thought these guys were cool from the outset:
First Commercial Shipment of Kafe Lespwa
Just Haiti is proud to announce the arrival in Baltimore of its first commercially shipped supplies of Kafe Lespwa coffee. You can now place orders at the Just […]
These are fuzzy photos, taken from behind a car window. I think it is worth adding that, although for most people in Lagos life is quite hard and hazards to health and safety abound, the city certainly has a dynamism and lively feel that cannot be discounted.
You see this message as you plow over the side streets of Lagos — one is always in search of a traffic-minimizing passage — painted prominently on the exteriors of the modest one and two-story structures that populate the neighborhoods. Most of these messages would have been posted a few years ago, when the antics […]
More than any city I have visited, this place — Lagos — gets in your throat. More soon.
I turned on my television about one day ago, when the story in Mumbai was just beginning to unfold. Over the next hour or two, I watched it creep up the list of featured stories at the online sites of the Washington Post and the New York Times, while CNN International covered it exclusively. […]
My expectations for Nigeria were generally shaped by three random impressions from afar: (a) the bit of immigration work I did in the 1990s, when Nigerian clients would show up with shifty documents and lots of cash, and then disappear when the INS started asking too many questions; (b) those famously prolific and creative e-mails […]
I missed it, but her team won the 5-6 division in the local Youth Soccer League tournament yesterday. Big E reports that she wore her medal to the dinner table.
Meanwhile, have I mentioned that Anna takes three dance classes (jazz, Egyptian folk, and ballet), for a total of eight hours a week? Her […]
For uninteresting reasons, I did not travel to Nigeria on a direct Egypt Air flight from Cairo, but instead flew through London, waited a looooong time in the new terminal at Heathrow, and then took an overnight trip to Abuja. Pardon my carbon footprint.
I entertained some notion of taking the Heathrow Express to […]
I was supposed to leave for Nigeria today, but had to delay on account of Evie’s 7th birthday party. I was a bit apprehensive over this one due to the sheer numbers. That popular girl pared and pared, and could not get her list of favorite people to fewer than 15, plus her sister and […]
We made a paper maché piñata for Evie’s birthday party today, but Anna paid her ahead of time not to kill it.