stories from benin

inside - How nice Africans react on children (having a son of 1,5 years); how people are friendly, laughing, chatting although they have only the most necessary things to live.
outside - Increasing violence - two weeks ago a friend of mine was killed when a gang wanted to steal a car (which was not even belonging to him). He was just at the wrong moment at the wrong place. So far, Benin was a quiet country, only with small criminality, but it starts to change its character and where does it go?
future - The difference between rich and poor will be bigger; the information systems we are using will develop in an incredible speed but at the same time poorness and ignorance of ecology will destroy the last nature reserves - and things will be worse. But perhaps, mankind is destroying itself thereby...

Elisabeth van den Akker <e.vdakker@intnet.bj>
Cotonou, Benin - Tuesday, February 25, 1997 at 11:17:09 (GMT)


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