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MOLARA WOOD
T H E W R I T I N G S O F A G E N E R A L W O R D S B O D Y
S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 1 8 , 2 0 0 6
africa by okada
And five rode into town.
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Fabrice and fellow Okada riders
This is Fabrice Dubesset, a Frenchman who is riding...
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MOLARA WOOD
T H E W R I T I N G S O F A G E N E R A L W O R D S B O D Y
S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 1 8 , 2 0 0 6
africa by okada
And five rode into town.
.
.
Fabrice and fellow Okada riders
This is Fabrice Dubesset, a Frenchman who is riding through Africa
on a Honda 125 motorcycle - popularly known as ‘Okada’ in Nigeria.
Dubesset, who has left a comment on this blog before, worked at the
French Cultural Centre in Lagos for the last year and half.
But his
time is up and thinking on his return journey to Paris, Fabrice hit on
the idea to travel back back - by Okada.
Frenchman on Okada
According to the French Cultural Centre, Fabrice “never knew how to
ride a bike before coming to Lagos.
But when he got here the stress of
‘go slow’ became overwhelming, so he had to do something about it.
So they advised him to buy a bike.
He didn’t know how to ride a bike
A B O U T M E
MOLARA WOOD
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
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