Hand-delivered at the doorstep: a bottle of Moet & Chandon and a bowl of chocolates. With compliments from the presidency's communication department. Ivory Coast finally has a president who has noticed the existence of non-French foreign correspondents.
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Actually at the end of 2007 I went to a Christmas meal organised by the communications department of Gbagbo's presidential office. I felt uncomfortable about accepting the wine so I gave it as a present to the taxi driver who drove me back to the office. A year later I was picked up by the same taxi driver who thanked me and said the wine had been first class.
I'm gobsmacked, but more by the fact that someone could find where you lived than the gift itself. I expect so little now of government 'communications' departments in west Africa that I can't imagine anyone from the Senegalese presidency finding my phone number, let alone my house.
It was the delivery service of the communications department. Amazing isn't it? They actually call to invite us to press meetings. Unfortunately all the other communications people -- at the ministry of Agriculture for example -- still don't know what Blueberk is.
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