an easy way for friends and family to keep up with life on the dark continent or wherever we end up...

Back up and running...

Apologies to everyone it's been over A YEAR since I updated this thing and there's been plenty happening in the mean time...

so a belated MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR, HAPPY BIRTHDAY etc to everyone!!!!!!!!

I've literally just put a whole YEAR's stuff up but I think only the latest blogs show on the screen to start with, so if you go over <== there on the left side, there's an archive where you can find all the old ones. There's a few at the start of 08 in Nigeria, Zanzibar in May 08, then our move the US, Canada in Sept 08, Cuba in Jan 09 and Guatemala and Mexico in Easter 09, enjoy...


J&G 2 Jun '09

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Election time in sunny Nigeria and all is well... (?)

So it's been another weekend of fun and games in Nigeria with the Presidential "Election" "taking Place"

Now you may wonder why these words are in inverted commas?

Short answer being:

"Election? oh, that's what you call an election"

and

"What do you mean there's no ballot papers this is an election? Oh, so now I have to come back next weekend for another election? I though we'd already done two this week..."

Anyway, I could get into a long and I mean looong dicussion about politics in Nigeria and Africa, and I'm not going to.

For those who want to know more about what happens when a country like Nigeria has "elections" I suggest you read these:

Nigerian Elections – Politics of Thuggery and Chaos

What our politicians say (and what they really mean) an interesting translation of electioneering hype

Nigerian Elections 2007: What's hot and what's not in the media coverage

Nigeria: Blogging the historic election (Part 1)

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