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the most popular songs here make no sense. who cares. the music videos are either filmed in paris or in a vip douala night club. about 45 women lined up shaking their asses in unison, one or two guys throwing money onto the floor, smoking a cigar and the mc repeating a word or phrase. surrounded by mirrors and smokey disco lights or on the banks of the seine. when you buy cooked meat it's try before you buy, so you get to taste any type you want before deciding which you will take. i tried a piece of chicken breast with rib bones suitable for chewing and swallowing deciding it was for me; a drunk comes and gives me the usual two minute long handshake, "bon soir le blanc, on n'aime pas les blancs," imitating a popular song, which happened to be playing then and there at an intensity that blew out those public event speakers around the same time the cd got scratched enough to routinely skip and no one notices (the belgians ruined it for everyone), asks me for a beer i say "n'y a pas" and he shakes my hand for another minute staring off into space the grilleur apologizes and says his sister is inside. but as long as i'm at the local restaurants and not cutting off anyone's hands for not having met the rubber harvesting quota i'm making an IMPACT.

i read the new york times article about the girls not having proper latrines, girls dropping out of schools for their period. one girl watches out for the other when they do their business in the bushes. shit, if i let two girls out of the classroom at once they come back 30 minutes later holding hands and laughing so i ban them, only one at a time. insensitive, holding back the progress of rural africa, which is tied to the development of conditions for girls, as the article notes. we have two raphia frond urinals for older and younger students, and an earthen-brick pit latrine somewhere on the hillside. we had a meeting of teachers in bamenda and they brought up the poor performance of girls in higher grades. the consensus: girls and boys stop caring about school when they start having sex, but the girls start earlier than the boys, 13, 14 years or so. this, perhaps, is a corollary issue. the article mentions pressures to get married and growing household duties, which mostly involve grinding, pounding, digging, stirring, gathering, balancing, climbing, upon whose completion you have breakfast.