Category: Nigeria 2009
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Invitation from Kano
Saleh Momale, our contact person with PARE, the NGO for pastoralists in the Kaduna region, combines his work for PARE with being a lecturer in the Geography Department at Bayero University in Kano. Due to his enthusiasm for my work, I was invited to come over to give a lecture. On the day of our […]
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Mr. Idiris drawing by hand
Mr. Idiris did a great job remembering his rainy season route. In the beginning he made some clear moves in the northern direction of Kaduna, but after a couple of weeks he suddenly turned sharply east. After that, he made a slow loop, in the direction of his dry season camp, and stayed not too […]
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Workshop on rainy season with Mr. Idiris
We start by making the robot drawing based on Mr. Idiris’s trip on Thursday, when he did his shopping for Sallah (the Festival of Sacrifice). As the data clearly shows, he covered a lot of kilometers on his motorbike, buying rice but also visiting markets just for the enjoyment of it. After discussing this trip, […]
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Late at night
Tomorrow we have a workshop with Mr. Idiris, so I give the downloading of the collar data a final try. But it does not work. At first, I don’t know what to do. Thinking about our experience with the workshop with Binta today, where we based our discussion on the relation between two tracks, I […]
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Collecting sand
In order to have enough sand for the workshop with Binta we went down to the river to collect the fine, white sand that can be found there.
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Testing Binta’s track
The parking lot of our hotel served as a test location for Binta’s track. In the meantime a wedding took place, and some guests were curious about the robot’s movements.