I originally started this website because I had grand visions of documenting my life in Mali when Mel and moved there almost 8 years ago now. Time has flown. In a nutshell, I think I think I was too busy living to spend time documenting my life in this way. Instagram might have been a better choice…Oh well.

I toyed with the idea of merging this site with my other site fredjoiner.com and just tagging these posts at #boomforrealbamako, that may still happen at some point, but for now, I think I am going to use this space to talk about arts and creative stuff in Africa more broadly, no that I have had some time away to really think about my experiences there. There will always be an arts focus somewhere in the mix, but I might insert some other stuff in there too.

Stayed tuned…