Here are some pictures from my recent trip to Togo, West Africa. I had served there as a Peace Corps volunteer working in Girls’ Education and Empowerment from 2009 to 2011, and I returned to my village in the north of the country this summer to visit my friends and contacts. I’ve written journal-style updates…
Tag: Africa
Visiting a Catholic Mass in Togo
When I first arrived in Togo in September 2009 to begin my Peace Corps service in that country as a Girls’ Education and Empowerment volunteer, the other trainees and I stayed in Tsévié, a town twenty miles north of the capital, Lomé. Unlike the Northern, Lamba town of Kanté that would become my home for…