August 01, 2003
Independence Day
Today is Benin's Independence Day, marked last night by a mobylette tearing around Grand Popo's one paved road dragging a tin pot, and this morning by a full-blown, flag-waving zemidjan rally which ended in a confusion of mopeds crashing through the bushes at the war martyr's monument across from our Auberge. The green-shirted zemidjan drivers smartened up when the troops arrived with the town mayor, to lay a wreath at the monument and hoist the national flag.
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