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Road Block Fears

By Susan Craig

We postponed our return to Cote d’Ivoire from Ghana because street demonstrations were scheduled by different groups in Abidjan for the second week of January. By January 7 those demonstrations were called off. I flew back to Abidjan on January 8. Except for higher-than-usual mounds of trash at various intersections, the roadway from the airport to our homes looked “normal.” I even rejoiced that our vehicle had to crawl with everyone else’s through a typical traffic jam. That’s Abidjan as I know it! Continue reading →

Lessons My Chook Taught Me

By Janet Chalker,  Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa

“Chook” is Australian slang for “chicken.”

When the black kite is high in the air he calls loudly, but once he spots his prey he goes silent and starts to circle, lower and lower, each circle tighter than the one before, until he is at about the height of my rooftop, eying Tilly and her eight little chicks, just a few days old, as they scratch around the yard looking for whatever chooks look for in the dirt. Continue reading →