Posts Tagged ‘names’
By any other name
I met three new young’ins at the gate today. Two boys, maybe 9 or 10, and a girl, maybe 8. The girl only spoke French, the boys spoke French and Kinyarwanda. We exchanged the things I know how to exchange with kids–hi, how are you, I’m fine, what’s your name. These kids had some extra [...]
The naming of things
From notes made between March 19 and 21, 2008 It’s almost never not funny here in Freetown. There are more signs for social causes here than for consumer goods—quite a surprise considering the astronomical number of things you can buy, at least when compared to what’s available in Kigali. But these Billboards of Good are [...]
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