Africa: 'Africans Going Dutch' - Part Three - Dutch Endangered Species

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Ayo Ojebode is ordinarily a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He's now a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Wassenaar, Holland. At NIAS, he's trying to complete a research on media and the memory of dictatorial rule. To him, Holland and its people are a pack of paradoxes -simply complicated; lavishly frugal; attractively disgusting. Therefore, they attract keen attention and frank comments.

Starting this month, our new weekly blog 'Africans going Dutch' will follow the highs and lows of living in Holland from an African perspective.

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