Today we are leaving Nigeria and heading forward to Niger. We have planned to visit Kano in the late afternoon. Kano is known as the ancient commercial city. We were very interested in the city,because it attracts a lot of business people. It is hard to imagine that. Yesterday, we didn't see anything else but poverty and farmers...
In Kano you see a lot of men on the street. They are looking for food or money. You can't find any women on the street. Their place is in the house. They are not allowed to go outside, due to the strong subservience.
while we were in Kano, we visited the palace of the Emir. It was very beautiful, so we spent two hours watching the palace. When we left, we saw the central mosque. unfortunatelywe couldn't visit it, because you may not enter it when you are a christen. Here in Nigeria, 40% of the people are christen and 50% are Muslim.
After visiting Kano, we were transported to Katsina. Through rough and small paths we saw the poverty for the last time.
Welcome to the first post on our blog of our exciting trip from Nigeria to Norway!
Monday, the 14th of February Julie, Delphine,
Anouk and I met each other at the airport in Zaventem. First we had to fly to
London because there was no direct flight to Nigeria from Belgium. The flight took about 7 hours and it was already
5 a.m. when we arrived at the airport in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. The
official language here is English, so we dont have any problems to express
ourselves.
In Abuja, I saw how poor people were. Ive heard that 34%
of the people in Nigeria live below the poverty line. They live in little huts.
We took an old bus to the small town. When we were there all the little
children just kept following us, it was really sweet. When we left they kept on
running with our bus. We made a little video of it.
Nigeria has a very tropical climate. We were in the
centre of Nigeria, so it was really dry. It practically doesnt rain at all
from November till April. We didnt mind because we were happy we could escape
from the awful Belgian weather, but it isnt that good for the farmers there.
Nigeria is a democracy and the current president is
Jonathan Goodluck. He is a member from the Peoples Democratic Party. A nice
fact about Goodluck is that he has a Facebookpage. He makes daily updates and
currently has over 490.000 fans. Before we went to Nigeria, I tried to read his
messages as much as possible.
