All in Africa

changing dollars

Abruptly we pulled to the curb, and Matthew began to talk to a bunch of men sitting in lawn chairs under a tree: robed, Ray-Ban-ed, exaggerated cool.  I was taken aback when Matthew announced that these men would change our money, and it suddenly seemed that the transaction was urgent.

hungry, please

as our airplane approached Abuja, I could see out the window that we were about to land in a place very different from where I come from.  I had never been to Africa before.  I was really excited, and more than a little afraid.