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March 08, 2009

Holiday time

I'm heading into my last two days in Gorom-Gorom before zipping off (if my truck could ever be said to "zip") to Ouaga and back to the UK to begin preparations for getting married.

And they are both national holidays:

* Today was International Women's Day, which is a national holiday in Burkina Faso. Because today is a Sunday, the holiday has been put back till Tuesday. The previous president, Thomas Sankara, used to insist on this day that the women stay at home and rest while the men do all the cooking and shopping. Finally the women got fed up, because the men would spend far too much money at the market, not knowing the prices, so the women went back to making life work for the family.

* Tomorrow is Mouloud, Mohammed's birthday.

Happy Holidays!

Posted by Keith at March 8, 2009 11:16 PM