Apropos American Presidents…

If you happen to be one of the many who thought the last Bush was a useless President, I ask you to revise your opinion just a tiny bit: There are suddenly and quite unexpectedly some guests at Hotel Djenne Djenno: Drs Bah and Diallo with their research team have descended on the hotel, and will stay for five days. They are here doing research on malaria and are just now making larvae cultures. I said that we have plenty of mosquitoes here and they could just help themselves, but they prefer to make their own! They are sponsored by USAID, and the project was originally set up by President Bush. And more excitement to follow: A journalist from the Times no less is arriving on Monday, again I think he wants to talk about the Manuscript Library. It is becoming something of a circuit now for the foreign correspondents who dare venture this far: visit the Sevare volunteer militias and refugee camps and then on to Djenne and the Manuscript Library…