We are preparing for the arrival of Monsieur Malick Sidibé, the Malian superstar photographer who just won a prize at the Venice Biennale- he is arriving tomorrow to take pictures of the hotel! (see June entry.
I wanted to fly him up here, or at least to give him a car and a driver, but he said, modestly, 'oh, no, don't make any trouble for me, we will take the Bani Bus'. This means that the grand old man will travel all day with chickens and goats and babies and finally be dropped off at the cross roads tomorrow afternoon with all his equipment. We will stand there waiting for him of course, with our Mitsibishi to take him the last 40 km to Djenné.