Mali – like nothing you’d expected

Mali. The ancient civilisation who caused the whole of North Africa to plunge into deflation when gifting the king of Egypt with a tiny bit of their gold reserve. Mali, with the mystical collection of thousand year old literature never copied or digitally preserved. Mali. A collection of forests, waterfalls, savannah and deserts. Mali. With…

Senegal – it still matters if you’re black or white

When in The Gambia everybody warned us about the hustling hustlers of Senegal. How they could turn violent and intimidating and they wouldn’t leave us alone up there. That The Gambia is the much more relaxed culture of the two. However, since we wouldn’t be left alone for two seconds straight anywhere in The Gambia,…