This is Béré

13 January 2019 I guess I'm holding a wake. I never really planned to do this. On the other hand, one of the worst things I can think of is being stuck in an airtight box and buried alive, so a wake seems like a pretty good alternative to doing that ...

17 December 2018 I stood at the gate in the Addis Ababa airport, passport and boarding pass in hand, waiting to board a bus to the plane headed to N'djamena. A couple of women brushed past me to stand at the front of the line--the middle of three loos...