I do so enjoy reading other Africa-centric blogs, like Jina Moore’s blog from Rwanda -- which recently posted about Rwanda’s puzzling lack of gas. I’ve seen the waggle-finger guy before too, whose sole job is to stand at a gas station and tell people to go away, that there is no gas.
I laughed -- before we suffered our own little problems here in Congo!
There is currently some fighting going on in Northeastern Congo -- still quite far from here, but as a result lots of the supplies that come here via boat are being routed instead there. Prices are going up (gas is now nearly $4 a litre!!).
The real dire situation, funnily though, is with toilet paper. It’s not just that it’s expensive now ($1.50 a roll!) but that there isn’t any.
None! In the whole town!
Unwilling to accept our terrible, crappy fate (ba dum *ch!*), I asked Seba how it was possible for the town to have no toilet paper. I mean, what were people using?! Leaves?!
“Notebooks!” he responded.
There is no waggling-finger man, here. There is just people, buying school notebooks...
...to wipe their butts.
Oh my!
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Hilarious. Seriously. Wow.
PS-- email me, so I can email you back, and ask some questions about your research? Fascinating.
-jina
I don't know that I have your current email! Your old Columbia email is in my Columbia email account (which I can't access from here -- too bandwidth heavy!) but feel free to email me anytime!
laura.darby@gmail.com!
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