The Injured Coast

July 20, 2013 7:58 AM

Teju Cole (previously) live-tweeted on Friday his trip across the Slave Coast from Lagos, Nigeria to Ouidah, Benin.
posted by Cash4Lead (3 comments total)

Thanks for this, I'll need to check it out. I read "Open City" a year ago and still trying to reconcile the denouement of that book.
posted by incandissonance at 9:18 AM on July 20, 2013

that was a great little travelogue. thank you for sharing.
posted by oog at 9:53 AM on July 20, 2013

Thanks. I watched an interesting video of Teju Cole giving a presentation on "The City as Palimpsest" a while back.
posted by stopgap at 3:08 PM on July 20, 2013 [1 favorite]