Saturday, July 9, 2011

Welcome To the World, South Sudan

Don't know what you're going to make of this place, considering the crises that spawned your nation to start with, but best of luck to you. Keep rocking the streets of Juba.

One more African note: the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso has one month--August--during which the high temperature does not average more than ninety degrees Fahrenheit. One. The other eleven month offer average highs of at least ninety and sometimes in the hundreds. Africa is perceived by many as a mercilessly hot continent, but many locales belie this stereotype and offer quite temperate conditions. Not so for Ouagadougou! Oh, and the average high in August is a chilly eighty-eight. Brrr!

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