Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Gambia President in attention-seeking video
Well he has my attention. You have to see this. You'll need a supermarket trolley for your jaw.
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This is the update blog for The Rough Guide to West Africa, a comprehensive guide to one of the world's most exciting and least-understood regions. The fifth edition was published in June 2008. You are of course welcome to send updates as ever to mail@roughguides.com but they'll reach me faster at richardtrillo@blueyonder.co.uk.All photos © Richard Trillo except Google Earth images and where otherwise credited. Click any image to view full size. You may need to refresh your browser.
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Useful West Africa links
- Check out this blog: engineers without borders (Canadian NGO, mostly based in Ghana)
- Check out this blog: Burkina Bound: Adventures in the Peace Corps
- Check out this blog: "Lagos City Photo Blog" (a great visual intro to Nigeria's biggest city)
- Check out this blog: "West Africa Wins Always" (beautifully written and photographed blog of a journalist based in Abidjan)
- Check out this blog: "Djenne Djenno" (Sophie Sarin's excellent blog of living in Djenné and running her hotel)
- Check out this blog "How di Bohdi" (excellent blog of Dakar-based journalist Rose Skelton)
- Check out this blog: Naija Blog (excellent Nigerian news and life)
- Check out this blog: "Me self I tire!" - always highly readable Port Harcourt blogger
- Check out this blog: Yuri Horowitz: PCV in Ségou, Mali - great flavours of the Niger River and West Africa
- Check out this blog: TWC's Mad, Mad World (Singaporean Tan Wee Cheng's blog is full of hard travel info about West Africa)
- Check out this blog: "Becca in Africa" (lively student blog form Dakar)
- Check out this blog: "Obscurity Central" (Kandé, Togo
- Check out this blog: Andy HoboTraveler (wide-ranging West African travels)
- Check out this blog: Nouadhibou, Mauritania (John Langdon)
- Check out this blog: "Postcards from my Life" (a German woman married to a man from Timbuktu blogs from Mali)
- Peace Corps blogs: Benin
- Peace Corps blogs: Burkina
- Peace Corps blogs: Cameroon
- Peace Corps blogs: Cape Verde
- Peace Corps blogs: Gambia
- Peace Corps blogs: Guinea
- Peace Corps blogs: Liberia
- Peace Corps blogs: Mali
- Peace Corps blogs: Mauritania
- Peace Corps blogs: Niger
- Peace Corps blogs: Nigeria
- Peace Corps blogs: Senegal
- Peace Corps blogs: Sierra Leone
- Peace Corps blogs: Togo
- West Africa news: Benin (Google)
- West Africa news: Benin (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Benin (Sonangon)
- West Africa news: Burkina Faso (Google)
- West Africa news: Burkina Faso (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Cameroon (Google)
- West Africa news: Cameroon (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Cape Verde (Google)
- West Africa news: Cape Verde (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Cape Verde (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) (Google)
- West Africa news: Côte d'Ivoire (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Gambia (Google)
- West Africa news: Gambia (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Ghana (Google)
- West Africa news: Ghana (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Guinea-Bissau (Google)
- West Africa news: Guinea-Bissau (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Guinea-Conakry (Google)
- West Africa news: Guinea-Conakry (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Guinée (in French) (Google)
- West Africa news: Liberia (Google)
- West Africa news: Liberia (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Mali (Google)
- West Africa news: Mali (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Mauritania (Google)
- West Africa news: Mauritania (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Niger (Google)
- West Africa news: Niger (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Nigeria (Google)
- West Africa news: Nigeria (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Senegal (Google)
- West Africa news: Senegal (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Sierra Leone (Google)
- West Africa news: Sierra Leone (Reuters)
- West Africa news: Togo (Google)
- West Africa news: Togo (Reuters)
- Africa Confidential - essential reading for scoops and inside stories
- Currency conversion
- Do you have to fly? Can you travel by any other means? However you travel, limit your carbon emissions, and always offset the journey
- Excellent new tourist office website for Ségou, Mali
- Focus on Niger: Lots of useful links by a former PCV
- North South Travel: Africa specialists, offering discount fares and profits to development projects
- Point Afrique: cheapest flights from France to West Africa and all profits to development projects
- Republic of Togo.com – fairly slick news and comment
- Tourism Concern, campaigning for a fair deal for all in the tourism industry. Their brilliant and shocking exposé of practices in some coastal hotels is required viewing
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