I recently moved to Côte D’Ivoire after living in the United States for nearly 14 years. Abidjan was never really on my radar until about 2 years ago, when I visited the city for the first time. I always planned on moving back to West Africa (specifically to Guinea, where I am from) but as the years passed, leaving the U.S. permanently seemed unrealistic; especially with 3 children under the age of 3… We all know that several West African countries are not exactly politically stable (among those Guinea and Côte D’Ivoire have had periods of politically-inspired violence in the past couple of years). There’s the lack of certain kinds of infrastructure and corruption is alive and well; sanitary standards are very different and sometimes simply nonexistent, not to mention the current Ebola epidemic. But I am not stating anything new and, although all these conditions exist, there are wonderful things going on in the region that you wouldn’t know about unless you lived in the region or traveled back often: which wasn’t the case for me. And when you are far away from your home, what’s the most common way of keeping yourself updated on current events? Besides family and friends, the NEWS. The problem is that it [...]
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