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Burkina Faso Picture by Mark Davies
Travel story: Ougadougou

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I took a four hour bus drive to the capital, Ougadougou, sitting next to a fascinating linguistics professor from Holland, who comes every year to Burkina and visits the villages just to listen to the different languages. As if learning french wasn't hard enough, every town immerses you in a totally new local dialect. He estimates over a thousand different languages in Africa.

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