Photo Gallery - Around Lagdo

Another photo gallery, this time of scenes around Lagdo without other nasaaras.

Around the House

The dog that’s been living in the compound for a long time had three puppies a month or two ago. Who’s the father? He skipped town before we could find out.

My basil plantation

Vers Le Barrage

This is taken on the opposite side of Lagdo from where I live looking down into town.

If you turn around from where I took the last picture, this is what you see. The road ends up at the dam. And, if case I never mentioned it here, it’s the Benoué River that’s dammed up; it flows through Garoua. (“Benoué” is the French spelling.)

A Chinese burial site that’s located down the hill and to the right if you’re looking at the previous picture. The tombstones are in Chinese and French, and the people buried died during the construction of the dam from 1978-1984. I’m not sure if these guys were “grands” or the heavy-lifters.

Government Buildings

The new mayor’s office that’s en train de construction. I think these trees were donated to the community by the World Wildlife Fund, so you can see they’re being well-utilized to make the mayor’s new, expensive office look nice… Also, that’s an Orange cell phone tower in between the two buildings, and the building on the right behind the mairie is the preschool, école maternelle in French.

The new sous-prefecture that, looking out from the front steps of the new mayor’s office, is across the soccer field at about one o’clock. Along with the mayor’s office, their old offices are pretty run down, especially for an important arrondissement like Lagdo, but what a way to spend millions and millions of Cameroonian francs. (The sous-prefecture, I’ve been told, cost at least 40 million cfa.)

100 meters or so down the road from the mayor’s office is the post office, where your email arrives in various states of violation by the lovely folks in Douala, Yaoundé, and/or Garoua. (The two guys who run the Lagdo outfit seem on the up-and-up.) The post office faces the new sous-prefecture, which is across the soccer field.

The salle polyvalente is where nearly all important community meetings are held in Lagdo. Walking from the post office, turn right back onto the road, then turn left fifty meters or so, and you’re there.

So, as you can, all the administrative buildings in Lagdo are all clustered together, or will be in the near future. (The old mayor’s office is on the opposite side of town.) The mayor’s and sous-prefet’s houses are to the left of the new sous-prefecture, so the commute isn’t that long. Will they walk instead of drive their cars? Ha.

From where the last picture was taken, I turned right 90 degrees, and now you see the road curve in the center of town.