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05 Jan
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ZENOSYNE EGGNOG TIPTOED

2018

Ahem The temperature around me dropped a full thirty degrees when I returned from Abidjan in mid-month, just three days after Gwen’s 20th birthday, a […]

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30 Nov
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DIARRHOEA DIG CUPIDITY

2018

Ahem While I and my colleagues at the Bank are paid good salaries, even by European standards, most families in the Cote d’Ivoire have perilously […]

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01 Nov
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CLANK JUSTICE FROMAGER

2018

Ahem There are no second hand markets in Abidjan: no Petticoat Lanes or Portobello Roads. There are no marches aux puces and no charity shops. […]

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30 Sep
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VIM WORO-WORO FONIO

2018

Ahem As Europe falls into yellow leafswirl, brown mulch and bright red bonfires, search-lit by horizon sunbeams and long-man shadows, so by contrast the weather […]

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31 Aug
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KYBOSHED PILLION TABASKI

2018

Ahem The curse of Shango, Yoruba God of thunder and lightning, is invoked against the Jeep Corporation for indirectly selling me (in separate continents and […]

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03 Aug
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MACHETE MALAGASY SYNOVIAL

2018

Ahem A family from France are staying for a few weeks. They introduced a cheerful, bustling and friendly family background noise of argument, proposition, enquiry […]

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01 Jul
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ROOVES CROCODILES MONDEGREEN

2018

Ahem The process of moving into my new home, a villa in a half-gated lane (see photo) close to the Rue des Jardins, was quickly […]

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12 Jun
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FRANTIC SPRAWLING LANTERNS

2018

Ahem After the strong and positive family emotions around my brother Clive’s funeral, I had a grim return to Abidjan, where uncertainties at work were […]

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10 May
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MY BROTHER CLIVE

2018

Ahem To be honest, my brother Clive and I were too far apart in age to be all that close while I was growing up. […]

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01 Apr
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HOMOPHONE KIMCHI BREEZY

2018

Ahem I am growing very wary of the word “smart”. Never dependable or stable, the word is too often used pejoratively. “Smart” was paired in […]

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