Eating leaves and lizards to survive in Niger
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Famine hit Niger in 1984 and 2005. If you look up "bo" on the Internet, nothing that makes sense comes up. But we were looking at a bo, or rather looking for it. We were walking along the bank of the Niger River, searching for the tracks of a hippopotamus that was ravaging the corn on Karim's farm.
All of a sudden, a lizard about the size of a small crocodile hurtled out of the undergrowth and raced up a nearby baobab tree. "It's a bo," everybody cried, racing to the foot of the enormous tree. Now I had never seen a bo before, so I was interested out of pure curiosity.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...