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...father was a U.S. Foreign Services officer who, with his wife, transposed a family of two sons and two daughters from Asia to Europe to Africa and back. “We were the first Americans to drive by land from the Republic of Niger to Timbuktu,” recalls LaTeef. “We got lost along the way and arrived after three days of traveling, only to run straight into a family of tourists from New York.” Her four years in Cambridge were the longest LaTeef had ever spent living in one place...
...postcards and photographs from the early twentieth-century—by both European and African photographers—offer a contextualization for Kïeta and Sidibé’s photographs. One of the most striking postcards is internally labeled “Young Arab Woman from Timbuktu,” showing a photograph of two topless women reclining in the pose of an odalisque. The photograph was taken by Francois-Edmund Fortier in 1905, and is quite obviously an example of a European conceit of the exotic. However, both Keïta and Sidibé play with...
...example of the "comparative advantage" theory of international trade: the salt farmers, the transporters and the traders each stick to what they do best. There was a time when the salt ferried by the Tuareg was worth more than gold or silver, and trade routes crisscrossed north Africa from Timbuktu to Cairo. Today, the camel caravans have mostly disappeared, replaced by overloaded trucks which tire less easily and require fewer men. Adam and his town folk are part of a dying breed. "It's very difficult," the boy told me. "I'd have preferred to have been in the pasture...
John Schmitt of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank in Washington, puts the average American vacation at 16 days. If not for their higher unemployment rate, the Europeans would be laughing at us. Anyone who travels has noticed that whether you go to Palm Springs or Timbuktu, the French and Italians are already there. You could parachute onto an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean and find 200 Germans lounging around talking about where to go next...
...King to scruffy indies is using the Internet to distribute his own music, TV, film and books. Ratnesar is now based in London, and so the team's techno-savvy came in handy. They wrote the story over speakerphone, with their computers hooked up across the Atlantic with a Timbuktu tieline...