Korhogo to Kong: pas de monnaie

There is a phrase that I already learned to expect in Ivory Coast when buying something: il n y a pas de monnaie. There is no change. It seems so severe that women refuse to sell you things when there is no change and it keeps on happening. I took a moto to gare de […]

A Tuesday in Korhogo

I don’t know if it was the joy of AC – first on this trip! – or the previous day’s tiredness but I slept long. I managed to get out of the hotel at around 11am. I wanted to change the room to one without fan. It was a bit strange, first the caretaker said […]

Man to Korhogo, direct, in 17 hours

Why I even wanted to go to Korhogo. Not sure. There is the name which is unusual. I had a student in Abidjan, named Ferhana (another unusual name) who was somehow different from all the others female students, apart from also being beautiful – I guess you’d call it je ne sais quoi – and […]