by steveuj | May 18, 2008 | Africa, Tales from a Road Warrior
After traveling from Abuja to Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, we drove for an hour and a half through Lagos and out into the country, where an abandoned teachers’ college was turned into a refugee camp in 1990. It is now “home” to about 5,400...
by steveuj | May 13, 2008 | Africa, Tales from a Road Warrior
It began Tuesday morning at the airport in Amsterdam. The team had met and were to fly to Kano, Nigeria, where they were to take a commuter flight to Abuja. The travel agent had assured us that there were frequent flights. Steve casually asked another traveller in the...
by steveuj | May 18, 1987 | Africa, Tales from a Road Warrior
We had successfully installed several dozen computers (a mix of 8088 and 80286 machines) at Edgerton University in Kenya. It was not an easy task. To get to Edgerton you drive from Nairobi over a two lane (in the good sections) road along with the open trucks and...
by steveuj | Jul 13, 1986 | Africa, Tales from a Road Warrior
When I was in Nairobi I often rented a room from Jim (who was from Chicago) rather than stay at a hotel. He was working for a London/Nairobi based coffee company as their financial manager. Jim needed to visit their office in Moshi, Tanzania (at the base of Mount...
