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		<title>Nigerian 419 Scams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Baxter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are probably few people out there who have not at some point received a beguiling email correspondence from a dulcet West African claiming Christian values and a gargantuan stash of money somewhere that he or she is desperate to share. If so, and if you are foolish enough to follow it up, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surfing Liberia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting and encouraging bits of news to come out of the growing African travel scene is the emergence of Liberia as a potential surf destination. What is surprising about this is not so much that the wave potential along the 2500km West African coast is so good, but that a nation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking For Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BootsnAll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Colyn Alcock When the rainy season kicks off in Ghana, a strange metamorphosis overcomes the locals. Down Cantonments Road, the usual jovial swagger is lost under the graying skies and replaced by a sullen, cagey attitude, even bad temper. I think there is genuinely something here about the way climate affects people, when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Trip to the &#8220;Shopping Mall&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2004 04:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BootsnAll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Colyn Alcock The old song goes, &#8220;if you go down to the woods today, you better go in disguise.&#8221; Nobody mentioned the exhausting experience of shopping in Accra. Take one oversized, humungous life-sized blender, tens of thousands of argumentative Ghanaian shoppers, a slightly greater number of street hawkers on amphetamines, cacophony of taxis blaring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accra for beginners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2004 03:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BootsnAll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Colyn Alcock Ghana welcomed me with an impressive monster of an electrical storm at 35,000 feet, out of the plane window it looked like God was taking photographs of his little piece of heaven that fell to earth. The lights of the capital flickered blue yellow and white below like hundreds of thousands and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghana &#8211; Fattening the Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2004 02:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BootsnAll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Colyn Alcock Allow me to pose a question for you to ponder. When was the last time that you took a major life decision that wasn’t based on a need to further your career, improve your lifestyle, develop or deepen the quality of the close relations you have? Take this situation. I run a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La République du Bénin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2004 01:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BootsnAll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People and languages There are over 50 distinct groups of peoples in Benin, and each speaks a different language or dialect. The most widely spoken language is Fon, which originates in Abomey, the old capitol of the Kingdom of Dahomey. Fon is spoken throughout the south and central parts of Benin. The Fon people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Trek in Dogon Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 21:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BootsnAll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicky McLean treks through the Dogon Country in Mali, West Africa, famous for being a culture that still ives in cliff-side villages and has managed to keep its old way of life. Dogon country is prime attraction to travelers, not packaged tourists, to West Africa, but Nicky warns: Be prepared to negotiate. Read More of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Character Building in Ghana</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2004 04:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BootsnAll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This job, you just never know&#8230; six months ago I wasn&#8217;t contemplating even coming to Ghana and now here I am hanging out with Rita Marley, wife of the late Bob Marley, contemplating horticultural potential and sussing out how we can develop her estate into a sporting space for the local kids in the community. [...]]]></description>
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