In this new series about cultural observations, our expert Sosauce traveler and family man, Howard will be introducing stories about his encounters with interesting people in his travels. This is the fourth and final part of a story about John Kago, a travel guide from Tanzania. Read the third part here. I guess you never [...]
In this new series about cultural observations, our expert Sosauce traveler and family man, Howard will be introducing stories about his encounters with interesting people in his travels. This is the third part of a story about John Kago, a travel guide from Tanzania. Read the second part here. We traveled in Tanzania only by [...]
In this new series about cultural observations, our expert Sosauce traveler and family man, Howard will be introducing stories about his encounters with interesting people in his travels. This is the second part of a story about John Kago, a travel guide from Tanzania. Read the first part here. Before our little propeller plane landed [...]
In this new series about cultural observations, our expert Sosauce traveler and family man, Howard will be introducing stories about his encounters with interesting people in his travels. This first 4-part story is about John Kago, a travel guide from Tanzania. Getting from Nairobi to the Serengeti National Park was truly a process. Five 6-seater [...]
Post No. 7 in a 7 post series. Previous Post: Clubs, Carjackers, and Undertakers All joking aside, despite the inconveniences and the moments of potential harm, I had an amazing experience in Nigeria. It was interesting to pick up a British paper and read about Live8, only to sit back and realize that, in some [...]
Post No. 6 in a 7 post series. Previous Post: Trucks, Curtains, and Designing Furniture Perhaps the most interesting and revealing aspect of the summer was how I spent my time outside of work. Socially, we hung out with three distinct groups of people characterized by how we got around. The first were the working [...]
Post No. 5 in a 7 post series. Previous Post: Driving in Lagos Surviving the morning commute, I would arrive at the office and start working. My client was Design Options, a furniture manufacturer and retailer. The FATE Foundation thought this would be a good fit based on my software engineering background. In truth I [...]
Post No. 4 in a 7 post series. Previous Post: My Lagos Living Situation My days began roughly at 8 am. After getting ready, I would sit on the couch until I heard the honk of my driver’s horn outside the window. It was hard to get used to the term “my driver”, and the [...]
Post No. 3 in a 7 post series. Previous Post: Nigeria in a Nutshell The living situation in Lagos was interesting. While one intern, Todd, received lodging from his boss, the FATE Foundation put the other four of us up in a three bedroom apartment, in an ‘upscale’ part of Lagos. Vincent and I were [...]
Post No. 2 in a 7 post series. Previous Post: Oeinbo! Introduction to Lagos Nigeria is a country with people from over 250 tribes; the three largest being the Hausa (from the north), the Ibo (from the southeast), and the Yoruba (from the southwest). Lagos, a city of roughly 10 million people, is the commercial [...]
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