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odds & ends from a Gambian blogger |
1.
This is how they start, the very first time he calls her, after he has taken her number:
- Hello.
- Hello.
A pause, the sound of their breathing over the line.
- Heeey - yow what’re you…
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When the very last grief
BY VERA PAVLOVA
When the very last grief
deadens all our pain,
I will follow you there
on the very next train,
not because I lack strength
to ponder the end result,
but maybe you forgot to bring
pills, a necktie, razor blades . .
(Source: poetryfoundation.org)
Interesting article about Nollywood in The Economist (we need to get started on Jolof-wood :))
4. Attached to her mother, she follows the woman everywhere. She understands two rules: being with her is good, being away from her is not. These are the only rules she needs to know.
16. Her first…
Pancakes!
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This is some fine stuff, Sichuan. (But did he have a Twitter account?)
Images from a tiger escape drill...