On Board the Just Pinasse
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I ask Amadou 2 what our pinasse is called. “Just Pinasse.” So be it
The Niger slips under. The kora plays. Lamont is extending his 1500 page autobiography, wearing new pants and shirt. Bea is sleeping. All are thrilled with our toilet: a hole in the boat with some 4 foot walls around it, a door with a sliding bolt.
We have some Chinese tea. “Papa would like this,” Karamo says. Yes, if he’d known there would be tea maybe he would have stayed with us. Bambara is still the prevalent language, Fulani has become Peul, Wolof has disappeared, add Bozo, Tuareg, Songhay, Dogon, Bela. The energy is flowing the poem. The Niger is placid, ripe, full of possibility. We’ll be at Lac Debo tonight. Fresh capitaine sounds good too. The kora sounds like Papa. Sure he’s here. I’ll find Ted Joans too. This is Bob Holman, on board the Just Pinasse, “On the Griot Trail.”
Bob Holman is the host of a new travel series focused on endangered languages called ON THE ROAD WITH BOB HOLMAN on LINK TV. He traveled to West Africa, Middle East and Asia and these are his blog stories from his travels. More information at http://www.rattapallax.com/blog/on_the_road/
The Niger slips under. The kora plays. Lamont is extending his 1500 page autobiography, wearing new pants and shirt. Bea is sleeping. All are thrilled with our toilet: a hole in the boat with some 4 foot walls around it, a door with a sliding bolt.
We have some Chinese tea. “Papa would like this,” Karamo says. Yes, if he’d known there would be tea maybe he would have stayed with us. Bambara is still the prevalent language, Fulani has become Peul, Wolof has disappeared, add Bozo, Tuareg, Songhay, Dogon, Bela. The energy is flowing the poem. The Niger is placid, ripe, full of possibility. We’ll be at Lac Debo tonight. Fresh capitaine sounds good too. The kora sounds like Papa. Sure he’s here. I’ll find Ted Joans too. This is Bob Holman, on board the Just Pinasse, “On the Griot Trail.”
Bob Holman is the host of a new travel series focused on endangered languages called ON THE ROAD WITH BOB HOLMAN on LINK TV. He traveled to West Africa, Middle East and Asia and these are his blog stories from his travels. More information at http://www.rattapallax.com/blog/on_the_road/
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