![Portrait]() | Aissa
Aissa Boubacar
Professor | | No description currently available |
| ![Portrait]() | Amina
Amina Kaza
Professor | | No description currently available |
| ![Portrait]() | Binta
Binta Haidora
Works around the CFCA | | Binta is a wonderful person, always happy to teach us Zarma. She has two children, Kuku and Mammi. |
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![Portrait]() | Bitty
Mrs. Bittlesworth
Cat | | Mariyatu found a stray kitten in Goudel and brought it home. |
| ![Portrait]() | Boubacar
Boubacar
CFCA Day Guard | | Quick witted and friendly, Boubacar is constantly on the lookout to set us up with a Nigerien petite amie. |
| ![Portrait]() | Dagara
Damian Guilleminault
Student - Boston University | | No description currently available |
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![Portrait]() | Damana
Diana Fishman
Student - Brown University | | No description currently available |
| ![Portrait]() | Don
Don Johnson
Peace Corps Volunteer | | Don gives us lots of movies in exchange for folding boxes of condoms. |
| ![Portrait]() | Goshi
Kelsey Erwin
Student - Boston University | | Coming from the rain forest of Seattle, this "cold season" heat is KILLIN' me! Unfortunately, the threat of guinea worm prevents me from floating the River Niger in my string bikini…hangin' in there. |
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![Portrait]() | Hajo
Jeanine Simpson
Student - Ohio State University | | No description currently available |
| ![Portrait]() | Herman
Herman
Cat | | Formerly a Marine cat, Herman now lounges around the CFCA. |
| ![Portrait]() | Ilia
Ilia Addoh
Liasion to the Musee Nationale and Artisan | | Ilia helps make arrangements for our apprenticeships at the Musee Nationale. He is also a wild Ultimate Frisbee player. |
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![Portrait]() | Joda
Jeni Parham
Student - Boston University | | Welcome to DisneyWorld! |
| ![Portrait]() | Joe
Joe
Marine | | Joe and his band of hooligans protect us from the evil forces. |
| ![Portrait]() | Kadi
Kadi Mariko
Nigerienne RA | | No description currently available |
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![Portrait]() | Kuku
Kuku Haidora
Cutie | | Kuku's mission is to rid the world of life without cuteness. A typical day includes coming to the CFCA in a ski parka, eating bonbons, posing for pictures, and ordering us around. |
| ![Portrait]() | Lou
Lou Lantner
Director of the American Cultural Center | | Lou is a totally way-cool guy who has helpped us become situatied in Niger and always reminds us that the powers and amenities of the United States are always close at hand -- like Ultimate Frisbee on Sunday. |
| ![Portrait]() | Mariama
Andrea Merriam
Student - Boston University | | Look for my pictures - how does the camera always catch me with a weird expression? |
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![Portrait]() | Mariyatu
Meryl Murtagh
Student - Boston University | | I'm having a calabash lovin',crazy cab riding, UNDP workin', much french butchering, lotsa water drinking, buddy bud time. |
| ![Portrait]() | Mintu
Michelle Raagas
Student - Boston University | | No description currently available |
| ![Portrait]() | Moussa
Moussa
Laundryman | | One of the two laundrymen at the CFCA. |
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![Portrait]() | Murza
Maya Moore
Student - Georgetown University | | Here I am with tresses, thanks my buddy Binta. For a Maine country girl I'm doing pretty well in this sweltering city and am keeping busy flitting to and fro the SIDA kiosque and silversmithing booth at the museum where I make jewelry with a bedazzled jean jacketed Tuareg. |
| ![Portrait]() | Nanuwa
Nadia Hussain
Student - Boston University | | So far I have been successful at evading marriage proposals, particularly from the two nameless lovers that my voyeur foresaw in my cowrie shells and dancing away the mosquitos of the Sahelian twilight. |
| ![Portrait]() | Ousman
Ousman
Music Instructor | | Ousman teaches the goge, an instrument like a violin. |
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![Portrait]() | Rabi
Andrea Atkinson
Student - Boston University | | A food-fighting, tae kwan do kicking prom queen, solar powered fruit lady and future president of the world. (not to forget Latin diva). |
| ![Portrait]() | Raisha
Sarah Darcey-Martin
Student - Boston University | | No, I'm really bad at these things. |
| ![Portrait]() | Salma
John Degory
Student - Boston University | | Africa: it's hot, but now I have these neato pants. I like to show these Nigeriens how to dance every now and then. In my spare time, I work on developing the conspiracy that Italians had an immense cultural impact on West Africa. |
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![Portrait]() | Shaibu
Shaibu
Professor -- Hausa Language | | Shaibu shi hausa malami ce! |
| ![Portrait]() | Soudange
Alison Malaska
Student - Boston University | | When not dodging nuns, I'm busy making trunkless elephants out of soap. |
| ![Portrait]() | Soumana
Soumana
Cook | | Soumana assists with the preparation of our lunches and dinners. |
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![Portrait]() | Sounaye
Abdoulaye Sounaye
Professor and Program Director | | Sounaye is our Buddha. He taught us about chameleons. |
| ![Portrait]() | Sumana
Søren Heitmann
Student - Boston University | | My HS Graduating class voted me "most likely to take over a third world country." Here's my big opportunity. Shennanigans, tomfoolery, and lots and lots of peanuts. |
| ![Portrait]() | Tonkary
Tonkary
Laundryman | | One of the two laundrymen at the CFCA. |
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![Portrait]() | Yakaka
Karen Caldwell
American RA | | After a brief visit to her native Massachusetts, this newly coronated African Queen returns to her Mother Land to guide a new herd of "anasaras." |
| ![Portrait]() | Yazi
Yazi Dogo
Professor and Actor | | No description currently available |
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