This is my first friend in Africa, a man I admired like no other. He passed away in 2003. He was afflicted with the most common killer in Africa, a gastrointestinal disease. The only reason he died was because he just didn't know that all he had to do was go to the drug store to get a cheap and widely available medicine. The compound in the background is Yemboini's home. He was a very modern man, with a shower inside his house, possibly the only African living in such a house with that level of comfort. It's also not common to see Africans walking through their fields with a coffee cup, which is so common in so many other places, especially in the US. I invite you to read my blog concerning him and his family: nigerbend.wordpress.com Please click on the photo to see his younger brother, Talardia, whom he called just, "Petit Frere", "Little Brother" in English. Talardia has filed all is top front teeth to points.

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