The 'African' Development of a Continent

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Whilst my friend and I were happy to sleep on the roadside some 30 kilometres out of town, the seven other passengers travelling in our Peugeot 505 taxi were not.

They were locals, not backpackers, and needed to reach Kayes, Mali's former capital city, that night. But since we refused to pay the roadside gendarmerie to escort us into town and, allegedly, deter night time road bandits, we all had to wait for dawn to get going.

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