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• I've moved to Bissau 9 years ago The past couple of months have been a whirlwind and culminated with my moving to Guinea Bissau. I'll be here for a year, working for one of the UN agencies based in Bissau.I hope you guys will tag along for my Bissau adventures, and bear with me as I go through the settling in process all over...
• For the silver lining 10 years ago After the terrible bout of food poisoning I got from Rodeo Jack last night, a little pampering was in order. The Ivotel Spa fit the bill, and the facial made me feel like I'd left Abidjan...
• Yamoussoukro 10 years ago I have been anxious to get out of Abidjan and see more of Côte d'Ivoire, so a group of us headed to Yamoussoukro. After a 2 hour drive on excellent roads we entered what I imagine an American suburb in West Africa to look like -- wide roads with people too poor to have cars mostly on foot and...
• Entrepreneurship and co-working in Abidjan 10 years ago Abidjan is a place that never ceases to amaze me.  Subsistence entrepreneurship is pretty big here (taxi drivers et. al.), but Ivorians strike me as reluctant entrepreneurs. I don't know if it's a relic of the country's colonial ties to France, but innovation and tech entrepreneurship are not the...
• Heading outside of Abidjan 10 years ago Not everyone is an outdoorsman. I guess what I am trying to say that, some of us prefer the great indoors. I happen to be one of those people.  I like shopping malls, libraries, nice living rooms -- you know, inside spaces. This may be one of the reasons I'm sometimes referred to as an inside cat....

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