We were
really blessed to be able to move into a nice apartment in a good
neighborhood. A friend who worked with
our group lived here but moved away, so that’s how we found it.
The neighborhood of Badalabougou is very centrally located in Bamako. The city is divided by the Niger River, which is just a 5 minute walk away from the house. The north side of the city has the downtown area and JP’s school is up there too. We live just south of the river between the Martyr’s Bridge and the New Bridge. There is one more bridge in the city and it’s newer than the New Bridge, but they didn’t want to change the New Bridge’s name, so the newest bridge is called the Third Bridge. Not very creative, but better than calling it the Newer Bridge I guess.
The names of the neighborhoods here are all quite a mouthful. But if you know a bit of Bambara (or ask someone to explain) you can often disect the names and make some sense of them. Badalabougou is broken down to ba-da-la-bougou, which means “river-mouth-place-neighborhood.”
The neighborhood of Badalabougou is very centrally located in Bamako. The city is divided by the Niger River, which is just a 5 minute walk away from the house. The north side of the city has the downtown area and JP’s school is up there too. We live just south of the river between the Martyr’s Bridge and the New Bridge. There is one more bridge in the city and it’s newer than the New Bridge, but they didn’t want to change the New Bridge’s name, so the newest bridge is called the Third Bridge. Not very creative, but better than calling it the Newer Bridge I guess.
The names of the neighborhoods here are all quite a mouthful. But if you know a bit of Bambara (or ask someone to explain) you can often disect the names and make some sense of them. Badalabougou is broken down to ba-da-la-bougou, which means “river-mouth-place-neighborhood.”
I took a few pictures from our side of the river. In this one you can see the Martyr's Bridge.
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