Once again I feel I have to screech to the heavens and beg for an answer why the best magazine in the world has such a lousy Web presence. As Mike Meyere s might say: this one is crraaap! Don't David Remnick and Company get the Internet? Or are they playing some kind of ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
Nigeria
George Packer on Lagos
Once again I feel I have to screech to the heavens and beg for an answer why the best magazine in the world has such a lousy Web presence. As Mike Meyere s might say: this one is crraaap! Don't David Remnick and Company get the Internet? Or are they playing some kind of ...Word for the Travel Wise (11/07/06)
Should you find yourself at dinner or having a cup of tea at a Nigerian friend's place or someone of Nigerian descent, don't be too surprised to hear this word shortly after stepping into the house... Today's word is a Yoruba word used in Nigeria: joko - sit down English is ...Word for the Travel Wise (10/16/06)
Meet me in Lagos - It's goin' down! Okay, sorry that was wrong of me and I promise to try keeping catchy rap hooks out of my blogs. Anyhow, a few friends were talking as usual about returning to their motherland of Nigeria and me being the professional tag-along I am, I ...Inside Africa Vol. 1 & 2
TASCHEN books are some of my favorite to collect. If I had hundreds of dollars to blow I could easily do so on their website, but for now I'll have to place some of these titles on my Christmas wish list or refrain from doing so much running to and fro' to buy a few more. ...Word for the Travel Wise (07/18/06)
Every time a friend of mine goes back home to Africa or the U.K., he usually brings back this delicious treat made from flour called chin-chin. At first glance the desert type snack looks more like kibbles n' bits than something I'd be willing to toss back in the ole' trap ...Word for the Travel Wise (06/08/06)
Considering the amount of Nigerian friends I have you'd think I'd be off in a rush to check out their hometown digs, but the truth is I'm not. Well at least not right away. It's sort of how some people find travel to, from or through Africa as a whole dizzying; I get that ...Word for the Travel Wise (04/23/06)
Most of my close Nigerian friends are from
Yoruba states in Nigeria so when I gather vocabulary words from the African country it's normally the Yoruba language
that I'm soaking up. Then it suddenly occurred to me that I should probably do a better job of asking the few from ...Dead Bird Smuggler Nabbed
First we had the head smuggler, which was bad
enough, but now we’ve got folks trying to
smuggle dead birds into the country. Where will the madness end? Yes, it was at the Miami International Airport
(always Miami!) where customs officials caught a man with a dead bird ...Africa Travel: Nigeria
As I may have
mentioned once or twice in the past during my weeks long babbles on Trinidad & Tobago there is a rather large
population of Nigerians residing in the country. So I don't get side tracked, the point I'm trying to make is you
needn't go all the way to Nigeria ...Word for the Travel Wise (02/20/06)
The folks who have so kindly allowed me to bounce back and forth from their homes here in Trinidad are any and everything, but 'Trini to deh bone.' In addition to the large East Indian and well, West Indian population here on the island there is a rather large community of ...Word for the Travel Wise (01/03/06)
English is the
official language of Nigeria which means any
traveler should be able to converse and navigate their way from Lagos to Jigawa with ease. Unless you don't speak
English. Yet, the well versed travel wise trekker knows there lie secret words shouted in the stalls ...
