Monthly Archives: February 2009

On getting my wedding dress made in Benin

Today, I spent a few hours in West Africa’s biggest open air market buying fabric for my wedding dress with my (future) sister-in-law and her distantly related “aunt”. Oh boy. If you’ve never lived here, you probably don’t understand the dichotomy between the fact that Beninese tend towards being the best dressed people in the [...]
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