Our new home is interconnected with a couple of other houses and courtyards in an African apartment complex. The floor and walls function as a continuous concrete “u” that is open to the hot sun. A hallway leads back to a series of metal doorways breaking an otherwise continuous concrete wall about eight feet high. These doors open into small household courtyards for each family. Ours is the first courtyard and you have to carefully creak through a door without a bottom hinge. The courtyard is… Continue

A large portion of my last blog related the story of being introduced to the intricate network of the bike industry in Bouaké. Chazz and I have been back to M. Mobson several times since then to buy replacement parts for the bicycles on campus and each time he has graciously received us and we have talked for a while. Because of this established relationship it was significantly easier to then go to him on January 24 and buy two sweet single speed African work bikes. Sweet does not imply… Continue