Today, TV2 Norway posted the following presentation about the “famine” of Niger, which will be airing on Monday the 3rd of March at 22.35pm: En medieskapt katastrofe Året er 2005. En fem måneder gammel gutt dør rett foran et TV-kamera, og BBC erklærer sultkatastrofe i Niger. Men tv-bildene forteller ikke sannheten. FAKTA: Se Dokument 2 [...]

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This morning, we got up after far too few hours of sleep (two). With the TV team busy dealing with practicalities around the documentary, we got the day off and my dad gave me the tour of (part of the) city. It was fun to catch up on Oslo, especially since my grandmother comes from [...]

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It is nearly morning and I am just back at the hotel, after having seen the very first (complete) preview of the TV2 documentary about the Niger “famine” in 2005. I really liked it (what a complex piece of work!) and it will be interesting to see how people respond to it. Mostly when we [...]

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I am leaving for Oslo today. Earlier the Norwegian television company TV2 sent a television crew that came to visit us in Niger. They were doing a documentary about Niger’s hyped famine of 2005 and stayed with us for two amazing weeks. The project is now done and will air on March 3rd, at 10.30 [...]

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My mother and I, picture taken just a little less than a year ago. You held a speech Mom and I was so proud of you. Still am!

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The journey went well. I am tired, but have landed in Sweden this morning. A lot of things (and feelings) have been going through my mind lately, but through it all, I feel joy, peace and happiness. Someone promised me nearly two years ago that if I came to him, he would carry me, day [...]

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My dad called me at 5 am this morning to tell me that my mother had left us. I don’t know what to say right now, more than that my intellect and my soul are not in unison. I will be leaving for Sweden on Monday. 14 comments: Tauratinzwe said… Sorry to learn this. May [...]

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I have a special little friend named Aichatu. She’s young and she always has a twinkle in her eyes. She’s a big rascal who always gets into trouble with the boys. I don’t know how many times I haven’t saved her from getting whacked, but it’s been a number of times now. Wouldn’t want her [...]

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Having worked so much overtime lately, Nettus and I took part of the afternoon off and brought Sahara back to the stallion station to meet with the boys. She was really one thrilled mare as we left the flock (which normally drives her nuts, seeing she’s the boss and they should always accompany her in [...]

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Ali brought us a nice surprise today, and he was called Lawan. He’d come to do some repairs on the horse railing which should have been done yesterday, but which wasn’t due to communication complications and lost pride. In any case, Lawan the 2nd (as we will have to call him) was kind, patient and [...]

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The only thing that remains to see is if the pool paint will keep the water from leaking out of our precious little pool! If it does, I’ll almost be looking forward to the warm season, lol!

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Today was probably the busiest weekend day we’ve had so far! First of all, an entrepreneur had come with a team to move the horse fence, so that Arwen will finally have a place of her own and be able to fight the dog over his rice or tear down my plants whenever she suffers [...]

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Our house as almost as old as I am, and as with all things, they eventually fall apart. What a shame though that both our sinks (and that would be our only sinks, except for the one in the kitchen) decided to break down at the same time! No big surprise though, when we took [...]

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Our terrace lizards are vegetarians, which is cool, really, except for one thing: They eat our plants!!!

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An expert in the US told us that Sahara might very well be having silent heats, and that it might be wise to let her interact more with stallions. First up (behind a wall of protection) was Rio, the Snowman’s colt. At first, he was a bit overexcited, but then he calmed down and the [...]

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