We all packed ourselves into the pickup truck together with the backpacks and shovels and infiltriometers and kitchen equipment and started the journey northward. Elli and I, the translator Desiré, a soil science PhD student, Maurice, who was coming to help Elli get started, and the driver of course. What felt like half the dayContinue reading “the journey to Ouahigouya (October 22)”
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at the experimental fields of Saria (October 20)
The first real day of fieldwork was spent going to Saria, an agricultural research station that INERA, our local partner and a governmental research institute, has run since the 1920s. We went there to pick up the toys that Elli will need for her sampling and measuring and weighing – basically when she plays withContinue reading “at the experimental fields of Saria (October 20)”
update
The very old president might be able to sit for another five years after a proposal was passed in the parliament on Monday, and the opposition is encouraging civil disobedience. But Elli and I have left Ouaga and here in the country, things are calm. I need to sleep much more than usual, though. Interesting,Continue reading “update”
sub-tropical tiredness
It is weird, how life this close to the equator turns away from the modern age. The body adjusts to the sun. It has happened to me before, and it is happening now: the sun goes down around six. By seven, it’s pitch black. There are no street lights anywhere. Few houses have lamps strongContinue reading “sub-tropical tiredness”
first days in Burkina
Line, my supervisor, was only able to stay in Ouaga for a couple of days, so there was no time for us to land before we started going to meetings with collaborating researchers and translators. They were intense, those first days, and I was exhausted most of the time, from the heat and my brainContinue reading “first days in Burkina”
Katja Malmborg 