save me your daughter–in chaa Allaah
on Beneath the Mosquito Net (Cameroon), 18/Apr/2010 22:03, 34 days ago
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Emerging into the shadows off our front stoop, we were suddenly faced with a smiling apparition – a teenaged wandering tea seller with the ubiquitous coal-fired portable kettle.  What wasn’t standard-issue was his impressive grasp of English.
It isn’t every day that we meet people who speak more than a few words … this conversation started [...]