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I BELOVED BREDRIN THEODORE MENSAH DOSSOU-YOVO
AN HIS WIFE VERONIQUE FROM SENEGAL-HOW DID I MEET THIS MAN YA? LONG STORY WHICH I SOON WILL TELL...PIECE BY PIECE!!
YOU KNOW I STAY ALOT ON THE COMPUTER, NUH TRUE..WELL
ONE DAY, I WOMAN WAS ON IT, JUS DOING I BIZNESS, AN MI HEAR A BUZZ IM...I WOMAN BEING SUSPECIOUS, I CHEK IT TO SEE, READY
TO IGNORE IF IT IS A NASTY PERSON...SO, HIM SEH HIM FROM AFRIKA. MI NUH BELIEVE IT, HIM SPEAKING BETTA ENGLISH YUH KNOW THAN
I !!
Above are 2 masks, Benin Art, and the head below is a Bronz Artwork from Benin, I got
a similar one to this at I home!
NEXT, di man ask mi few question bout I family, all pon di
up an up...fine, than him ask if I live wid I king, mi tell him...an him seh, "HO"....now, in I language that mean something
nasty..wellllllll, how dare he??? mi vex yuh know, an yuh sight mi language when mi vex, man, mi cuss him out an mi tell him
get away...
well sistren, bredrin, after a bit of
mis-OVERSTANDING pon I part an His, INI REAL-eyes how di communication was needing to be examined...firstly mi mek sure fi
use only 'English', no patois, lol. Next, mi try fi overstan di man may have things backwards, an wrong since English is not
him first language (ho=oh!!!!)...
I was not only happy to find out that
he was truly a good man, but that being he was fluent in French, and in his native Wolof, he spoke English very well, even
though there were a few words here an there which INI would haffi communicate an reason over to be overstood. Wow. After reasoning,
laughing, crying, talking, smiling, trusting, and more reasoning over the past years, mek wi truly best friends...over all
the MILES. Now, INI are working on getting them over here, but it is such a struggle. I have contack I senator, an they of
course send I to I congressman, excetera.
But if yuh know I, mi nuh give up easy
so, dat how mi stay. Since I am a citizen of US, I a do have a chance but it will take time, an patience, which hopefully
I Bredrin an I can deal wid. I whole family LOVES TEDDY, an INI will wellcome him into INI home along wid his lovely wife
Veronique...I tell him all the time, have babies an I will baby sit like a granny to dem pickney!
This is where Teddy is from originally, Benin...I
took some information here from the net. Someday perhaps I will visit, but I dont like to fly, lol, so I tell him how lang
will it tek by boat, an he seh "see you in a year kaya", lol.
ALL ABOUT BENIN
The flag of Benin
Fulani Woman
Fulani (also Peul) is a nomadic ethnic group that lives in the Sahel (the semi-arid region between the Sahara Desert
and the more tropical areas to the south) regions of West Africa. They have very distinctive features, and body
decorations.
"Bush rat sellers. Allada is affectionately known by some as the "Bush Rat Butt Capitol of Benin" by
many Peace Corps Volunteers. I tried it. It's not bad and tastes a bit like pork. I did not eat anything that
was anatomically identifiable such as the head, and the butt (the most sought after part). The really gross part is
that they burn off the fur and sometimes your rat butt will be a little hairy. This gives new meaning to the saying,
"I don't give a rat's ass." " from http://www.geocities.com/fon_is_fun/more_pictures.htm
Mi love this picture yuh know. It is a picture of two Benin pickney..both so Ilafull,
one is as dem seh in Jamaica dundass, or more politely Albino. Albinos according to the webowner are treat well in Benin,
but the problem of di sun is allways a kancern.
Hmmmm, well, as yuh see above, Bush Rat is a food in Benin, and here yuh have a next
yout, holding a bush rat.
Tata Somba
These are fortified mud huts (built like castles) in order to protect the inhabitants from attacking enemies
in the North of Benin. They are two stories and the people live on the roof while the animals live on the ground level.
There are secret hiding places for the inhabitants to hide on the ground level to ambush an attacker as well as secret escape
routes.
Benin is situated in West Africa on the northern coast of the Gulf of Guinea. It has land borders to the
north by Niger, on the west by Togo, and on the northwest by Burkina Faso.
The coast has no natural harbors, river
mouths or islands, due to access difficulty because of sandbanks. Behind the coastline is a network of lagoons, from that
of Grand Popo on the Togo border (navigable at all seasons) and joined to Lake Aheme, to that of Porto-Novo on the east, in
which flows Benin's longest river, the Oueme, navigable for some 125 miles of its total of 285 miles. Beside Oueme, the only
other major river in the south is Couffo, which flows into Lake Aheme. The Mono, serving from Parahoue to Grand Pope, has
the boundary with Togo and is navigable for 50 miles but subject to torrential floods in the rainy season.
Benin's
northern rivers, the Mekrou, Alibory and Sota, which are tributaries of the Niger, and the Pandjari, a tributary of the Volta,
are torrential and broken by rocks. North of the narrow belt of coastal sand is a region of lateritic clay, the main oil palm
area, intersected by a marshy depression between Allada and Abomey that stretches east to the Nigerian frontier. North of
the hills of Dassa, the height ranges from 200 to 500 feet, broken only by the Atakora Mountains (1,500 - 2,400 ft), stretching
in a southwesterly direction into Togo.
Teddy lives in Senegal at Present in Dakar, where he is working, so here is all about
Senegal:
Senegal is situated on the western bulge of Africa and has borders with Mauritania to the north
and northeast, Mali to the east, Guinea and Guinea Bissau to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It surrounds Gambia
on three sides.
The northern part of the Senegal coast is made up of dunes and to the south are muddy estuaries. Behind
the coast is a sandy plain, which extends north to the floodplain of the Senegal River. The Casamance Region in the south,
isolated from the rest of Senegal by the Gambia, is low but more varied in relief, while to the southeast lie the Futa Jallon
foothills, which rise to a maximum altitude of just above 1,600 ft. Much of the northwest of Senegal is semi-desert, but the
center and most of the south, except for the forest of Casamance, are open savannah country. The major rivers - the Senegal,
Saloum, Gambia and Casamance - flow from east to west.
Senegal is
one of the most beautiful and diverse countries in Africa and yet remains relatively little known. A stable democracy, friendly
people, bearable climate and an efficient communication system combine to make this one of the most accessible of African
nations. Michael Hogan summarises the country’s attractions.
So Teddy works in this city, and I still do not overstan what he does for a living,
but I know it has something to do with computers and telephones, lol, INI may have to keep working on fine tuning the REALationship.
Teddy calls mi once in awhile, and spends lots of money making calls to say "Kaya, Kaya" and other things, as I do to him,
lol.
City of Dakar
The Flag of Senegal
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