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| "Here lies Chicago, the Diamond Dog." |
This grave marker is on the side of the road near my house; I walk by it pretty much every time I walk over to the Peace Corps office. I don't know why it's there, just outside the wall of an upscale-but-relatively-ordinary-seeming family compound, and I like it because it is incongruous and sentimental, even though it must seem bizarre to a local population that doesn't generally keep pets. I imagine that enshrining a dog's bones is just written off as one of the many silly things that foreigners do because they are foreigners.
If you're interested in mining in Guinea, though,
Patrick Radden Keefe wrote this piece for The New Yorker a couple weeks back, and it discusses mining, corruption and touches on some of Guinea's recent history and problems.
