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Golf without grass in Burkina Faso: a brown green to preserve water

In Ouagadougou, it is a unique golf course: sand mixed with waste oil replaces the lawns usually green and carefully watered. Water is a scarce commodity, so this 18-hole course adapts to climatic conditions.

Ivorian nouchi in all conversations!

"Woody" for "boy", "to be jealous" to "be happy" or "bara" for "work"... Here is a small anthology of Nouchi. Born in the early 1980s in the "glôglô", precarious neighborhoods, this Abidjanese slang is now used by everyone in Côte d'Ivoire, including politicians, artists and influencers. The craze is such that foreigners and tourists take nouchi classes.

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