I noticed that foreigners in Africa liked to assert what they knew as if it were fact. This is how the Africans feel about thus and so, an aid worker would say. This is what they think of this or that, or the other, over there.
We were driving along the streets at night and I noticed, over and over, brightly lit orange signs that simply said 'Orange'.
What is 'orange'? I wondered. Orange Juice? Orange Soda? Orange cigarettes? Candy? Gum? Condoms?
The signs were everywhere.
Finally, I asked Sidy. What is 'Orange'?
It is a cell phone company, he said.
Mali was like that. Most of the time I had no idea what I was looking at.
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