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	<description>'Legos In Lagos' or 'How Two Italians Conquered A Third World Country of Their Very Own'</description>
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		<title>Indigo Dye Pits &#8211; Abeokuta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The deepness of indigo color depends on how many times the cloth is dipped and dried.]]></description>
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		<title>Olumu Rock &#8211; A Yoruba Shrine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seventy kilometers (2 hours drive) north of Lagos in the state of Ogun is the Olumu rock, the massive granite outcrop that is a Yoruba sacred shrine.  It is located in the town of Abeokuta which means &#8220;under the rock&#8221;.  Years ago (in the 1830&#8242;s)  it was a shrine where animal sacrifices were practiced amung the Yoruba tribe.  Today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Heart Hospital &#8211; Abeokuta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A group of 13 of us left Ikoyi in a Chevron bus and security chase at about 8.15am. We hit light rain but we made it to the Hospital just after 10am and were greeted by Father Yemi Akinlotan. Sacred Heart is the oldest hospital (over 110 years old) in Nigeria located outside the city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch with Ammbassador Sanders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   I  had a quiet luncheon with friends to say good-bye to the current USA Ambassador to Nigeria.  The Honorable Robin Renee Sanders has been the Ambassador to Nigeria for about 2 ½ years.  Her office and work keep her mainly in the capital, Abuja.  However, she comes to Lagos a few times a month for meetings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ishahayi Beach School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once or twice a month we travel down Five Mile Creek to a secluded, quiet, beautiful and incredibly poor beach to while away the day in sun and relax at our beach house.  Five years ago the local one room reed and straw school house was rebuilt by the expatriates like us who spend their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Happy Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 16, 2010 Yes today is my Birthday…and our plan is for cocktails, homemade pizza, champagne on the balcony and a movie.  Imagine my surprise when I answered an incoming call and was serenaded with Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you  Happy Birthday to Miss Julie Happy Birthday to you For she is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the Message To the People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted throughout Freeman House:]]></description>
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		<title>Esther Ujie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our driver eldest daughter is enrolled at Cross Rivers State University of Technology in Calabar working toward and accounting/finance degree.  She just completed her first 100 Level semester.   Sunday, her father, is so proud of her and shared these pictures with us!]]></description>
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		<title>PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK &#8211; SOUTH AFRICA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Pilanesberg National Park is one of the third largest national parks in the Bojanala Region of southern Africa.  This unique area is encircled by four rings of hills, a geologically fascinating complex which was produced by volcanic action millions of years ago.  This park is a malaria-free reserve. It is home to over 7,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun City South Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We came for a short getaway holiday over a Nigerian holiday weekend. After an overnight flight we picked up a rental car and traversed rural country roads stopping along the way at Hartbeesboortdam in the village of Broederstroom.  Here we drove across the one lane wide dam built in the1920’s. We then had breakfast at [...]]]></description>
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