I have spent all my working life in Africa. This has taken me to 24 different countries, working in water resources management (and taking a few hundred photographs along the way). One thing you learn early in this type of work is that if you can’t ‘go with the flow’, you shouldn’t be there! Things seldom work according to plan. Everyone who does such work has a pack of stories to tell – you can read some of mine in Category 3 – “Travel experiences in Africa”.
I hasten to note that although many of these experiences lay bare the ubiquitous low level chaos which bedevils most of what happens on the continent and is also part of its enduring charm, it is the people who really count. Across the length and breadth of Africa you will find the very best of people, soldiering on against all the odds. The first story is “How to catch a flight from Abuja.”
I like the balance in your story, which you mention in your preface – that Africa is both a frustrating and a satisfying place in which to work, that it holds both menace and charm, and that there is pitiable poverty yet richness in the generous and hospitable people.