The Ivorian economy is in good shape, but not its roads. Bus stations in Ivory Coast are full of yellow minibuses and vintage trucks – known as Badjans – that date back to the 1970s, and it looks like some of the originals are still on the road. The Badjans are so old that the owners have to take apart …
Language: French and Dyula La MACA is a prison that lies right outside the borders of Ivory Coast’s capital city, Abidjan. And as they say in Philippe Lacôte’s Oscar-nominated film Night of the Kings, it is the only prison in the world run by an inmate. Ivory Coast, much like La MACA with its warring inmates, is a nation scarred …
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