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city Archive
Calabar, the gateway out of Nigeria
Posted on November 28, 2013 | 11 CommentsI am now well advanced through Nigeria, I went around the Delta region and I can aim for Calabar. I am no more an Oyihbo but an Oniotsha now, this […]In the meanders of the Oshogbo sacred forest
Posted on November 13, 2013 | 6 CommentsI am an arinaka (or some name like this), a nomad, in Yoruba. That is my answer to people who don’t understand what I am doing on a bicycle in […]Nigeria: to go or not to go
Posted on November 8, 2013 | 10 Comments– “You won’t cycle 20 km in Nigeria before they attack you.” – “You plan to go camping there? Haha, they’ll find your body and sell your organs.” – “Don’t […]Benin for culture and more bad roads
Posted on October 27, 2013 | 2 CommentsWaking up to a techno remix of Feliz Navidad / Merry Christmas song is not the best way to start a day. But François walks me to the exit of […]Towards Accra
Posted on October 17, 2013 | 3 CommentsSo the kassava and plantain banana plantation is to add to my collection of camping in plantations, with olives, lemons and oranges. I get out of my bush early morning, […]Into the Ashanti kingdom
Posted on October 11, 2013 | No CommentsGhana is one of the countries dubbed as “Africa for beginners“, where people are nice and where it is safe and easy to travel. It seems true so far, the […]Yamoussoukro
Posted on October 5, 2013 | 2 CommentsI stopped in Yamoussoukro, the capital city since 1983 in the center of the country, mainly to avoid the coastal road and Abidjan where most of the Ivorian population lives. […]In Baoulé country
Posted on October 2, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe morning we wake up in N’gorankro, it seems the kids are waiting for us. The same crowd as yesterday evening is here, under the porch of the house of […]Monrovia
Posted on September 14, 2013 | No CommentsWe stayed for the weekend at the convent in Monrovia, to rest after our adventures in the bush between Freetown and the Liberian capital. Katie and Guillaume took me to […]Freetown
Posted on August 15, 2013 | 5 CommentsThe kids are dressed up for school, in a green or blue uniform, while I load up my bike and leave for Freetown. I have 10 kilometers to cycle from […]