The bus to Bemenda was scheduled to take 6 hours. It leaves the bus station any time between 6am and 10am depending on how long it takes to fill up. Yusuf took us there for 8.30am. The bus station – a piece of dusty ground between two market stalls, was crowded with people, mainly local people travelling home to see family, but a few “Blancs” – this is what the locals call us.

Two very young women who could not have been more than 20, introduced themselves and said that they were gong to Bemenda to study linguistics. One was from the UK and the other from Canada. It tuned out, on further questioning, that they will spend 2 years in a small village learning to write and speak a local language with the purpose of assisting in translating the bible into that language.

As we travelled the landscape and architecture changed. Baptist churches, catholic missions and boys selling white sliced bread were all part of the Anglophone district. The bus to Bemenda was scheduled to take 6 hours. It leaves the bus station any time between 6am and 10am depending on how long it takes to fill up. Yusuf took us there for 8.30am. The bus station – a piece of dusty ground between two market stalls, was crowded with people, mainly local people travelling home to see family, but a few “Blancs” – this is what the locals call us.

Two very young women who could not have been more than 20, introduced themselves and said that they were gong to Bemenda to study linguistics. One was from the UK and the other from Canada. It tuned out, on further questioning, that they will spend 2 years in a small village learning to write and speak a local language with the purpose of assisting in translating the bible into that language.

As we travelled the landscape and architecture changed. Baptist churches, catholic missions and boys selling white sliced bread were all part of the Anglophone district. The bus to Bemenda was scheduled to take 6 hours. It leaves the bus station any time between 6am and 10am depending on how long it takes to fill up. Yusuf took us there for 8.30am. The bus station – a piece of dusty ground between two market stalls, was crowded with people, mainly local people travelling home to see family, but a few “Blancs” – this is what the locals call us.

Two very young women who could not have been more than 20, introduced themselves and said that they were gong to Bemenda to study linguistics. One was from the UK and the other from Canada. It tuned out, on further questioning, that they will spend 2 years in a small village learning to write and speak a local language with the purpose of assisting in translating the bible into that language.

As we travelled the landscape and architecture changed. Baptist churches, catholic missions and boys selling white sliced bread were all part of the Anglophone district. The bus to Bemenda was scheduled to take 6 hours. It leaves the bus station any time between 6am and 10am depending on how long it takes to fill up. Yusuf took us there for 8.30am. The bus station – a piece of dusty ground between two market stalls, was crowded with people, mainly local people travelling home to see family, but a few “Blancs” – this is what the locals call us.

Two very young women who could not have been more than 20, introduced themselves and said that they were gong to Bemenda to study linguistics. One was from the UK and the other from Canada. It tuned out, on further questioning, that they will spend 2 years in a small village learning to write and speak a local language with the purpose of assisting in translating the bible into that language.

As we travelled the landscape and architecture changed. Baptist churches, catholic missions and boys selling white sliced bread were all part of the Anglophone district.