When you want to say hello to the locals, just say “Salama.” It will light up their faces.
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You will be staring at life – its grandeur and truth. You will see these colossal wind-sculpted landmarks of nature with razor-sharp ridges undulating and arching their way into the horizon, creating a wondrous skyline you will always remember.
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You will take a second bite and a third and on and on, relishing it the more. You will wish you could make this sort of pizza for yourself when you leave Stone Town and your vacation is over.
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According to this tradition, Timbuktu was founded by Tuareg nomads as a camp where they stored their property and provisions and where they went back to from their long periods of travel through the Sahara Desert. It was said that these Tuaregs left this camp in the care of a woman called Tomboutou or Timbuktu, or Buctoo, which meant “woman with a big navel…”
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Boney M never dies in Nigeria. It doesn’t stay for too long. It comes and goes and comes again. And it comes at Christmas season. We don’t know where it goes; but when it returns, the radio houses start playing his Christmas songs. The music shops start blaring it on their stereos. And then the songs start pouring out of private homes.
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