In Niger everything harks back to a better time. The buildings or the layout of the streets or the way in which the forms are preserved are reminiscent of something earlier, of which there is no nostalgia left either. A time that seems better than the present. A time when the buildings were new and the trees were greener, and everything seemed livelier. Maybe not. There was never an acceptable past and that this that is interpreted as the past was transplanted here. That the girded greenery of the inaugurations never happened and that the country is just another part of the collector of old things that is Africa for the West. May we continue in the old habit of leaving them the beads and taking the valuable things with us.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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