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Building community in Nigeria #2

Open anelda opened 5 years ago

anelda commented 5 years ago

Anyone who is interested to connect and discuss workshops in Nigeria, please get in touch here so that we see how to support a national effort and help you to connect with each other. This may lead to the establishment of a Nigeria Task Force or something more or less formal.

I can't take leadership here but can help to facilitate a conversation and help to get the ball rolling. Other experienced community members may want to get involved in mentorship/support as well.

Looking forward to see what can be done as a workshop in Nigeria has been on the map since 2016 but have yet to happen.

Let's do this.

Kind regards,

Anelda

rgaiacs commented 5 years ago

I'm very happy to help to make Nigeria yet another success case of The Carpentries following the amazing example of South Africa and other places.

AbiReg commented 5 years ago

I think one of the issues we may have, holding a workshop in Nigeria asides having a venue is; the power supply.

anelda commented 5 years ago

I think one of the issues we may have, holding a workshop in Nigeria asides having a venue is; the power supply.

Absolutely, but let's see who joins the conversation and not be discouraged by the potential challenges right away. We have run workshops under sub-optimal conditions and have had success. I'm sure we can do this in Nigeria despite electricity/internet challenges.

Here is an etherpad where we can keep lists of things that might be difficult to keep track of in this issue - https://pad.carpentries.org/Nigeria2019

CarolineNWU commented 5 years ago

Thanks Anelda, Great platform to discuss issues. Trusting that the Carpentries will also make her impact in Nigeria . I trust Dennis and Chris are also in this communication. Great effort here!!!

Caroline F. Ajilogba, PhD

Microbial Biotechnology Group (Lab G09)

Department of Microbiology (Rm G10, New Sci. Building),

Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences,

North-West University, Mafikeng Campus.

Private Bag X2046, Mmabatho 2735,

South Africa

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 1:00 PM Anelda van der Walt < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Anyone who is interested to connect and discuss workshops in Nigeria, please get in touch here so that we see how to support a national effort and help you to connect with each other. This may lead to the establishment of a Nigeria Task Force or something more or less formal.

I can't take leadership here but can help to facilitate a conversation and help to get the ball rolling. Other experienced community members may want to get involved in mentorship/support as well.

Looking forward to see what can be done as a workshop in Nigeria has been on the map since 2016 but have yet to happen.

Let's do this.

Kind regards,

Anelda

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cosamede commented 5 years ago

I am a Nigerian in Nigeria and i will be very glad to be a part of this effort.

Bosman1 commented 5 years ago

I will also be interested in having carpentries being extended to Nigeria.

UPChukwudi commented 5 years ago

It will be great to reproduce the success story of Carpentries in Nigeria. Electricity supply is not regular in Nigeria but I do not see that as a set back for the Carpentries workshop in the country as most research institutes/universities have alternative electricity supply.

I will love to see the Carpentries team hit the ground and running in Nigeria. Thank you for creating this platform.

anelda commented 5 years ago

Hi all,

It's great to see the interest, but if we want to do something, we have to know what everyone can contribute. Please take a look at the etherpad and make some notes on how you see you can contribute to this effort. Anything will help - talking to a potential funder, finding a venue, teaching. It doesn't have to be a lot of time and surely doesn't have to cost money, but everyone who wants to bring the Carpentries to Nigeria (and especially those of you who are physically in Nigeria) should think about how you can help to do this. If you are unsure of what is needed to run a Carpentries workshop, please take a look at https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/hosts_instructors/index.html. If you have any questions about the documentation or about what it will take to run a workshop, please ask here or on the etherpad.

embray commented 5 years ago

Perhaps it was what motivated this post, but I don't know--but I have a contact at the University of Ibadan who is interested in hosting a Software Carpentry workshop there this Summer (tentatively July). We met at a mathematics software workshop, and the idea would be for it to dovetail into a workshop on SageMath and/or other open source software.

I have expressed interest in going, both to help teach the SWC component and help with the math software. The project I work for, OpenDreamKit, is willing and eager to pay travel expenses. But I feel that we need at least one more instructor as I can't possibly do everything myself, and furthermore we need more people for the mathematics portion since I'm not a mathematician and can only teach so much about Sage.

I'll also update the Etherpad soon as I'm able.

anelda commented 5 years ago

Hi @embray ! This is a terrific start. I wasn't aware of the proposed workshop.

So now we have something more specific to ask for. Is anyone in the community available to co-teach/help at University of Ibadan in July 2019? If you are available and interested, please let us know:

Please add this information here in the issue or on the etherpad.

@embray will you please point your collaborator to this discussion?

I know Nigeria is a HUGE country and people want to run workshops in many regions, but maybe we should try to focus on getting the first workshop off the ground and see how many of the interested community members can get to the first workshop. This is what we've been doing in SA to help new instructors and community members grow confidence and familiarity with the Carpentries' style and content.

sapmarvins commented 5 years ago

This is a very good initiative and I am fully in support of it. I am a Nigeria but reside in South Africa. There is a very internet access in Nigeria and also in some places good electricity. So, I do not see this as a problem.I will be also be interested if I am called upon to help. Thanks Anelda.

gabayae commented 5 years ago

Hi @anelda This sounds exciting. There will indeed be more regional community efforts as the Carpentries grow, and I had the plan to set up such a community in Benin Republic (my home country and neighbouring country of Nigeria to the west), so I strongly believe that the Nigerian model would be a lead and I would like to be part of it.

I am availlable and would be willing to co-teach/help at the University of Ibadan in July 2019. I can help with:

@embray I am a mathematician and will be willing to assist you in teaching the mathematics portion.

denironyx commented 5 years ago

Hey @embray, I think it will be a great idea to connect and work together on organizing the Software Carpentry for July 2019.

Hi @anelda, plans to organize a carpentries workshop at the Federal University of Technology Akure is currently in place.

I'm thinking about getting the GitHub page up and running soon.

OOBabalola commented 5 years ago

Carpentries in Nigeria is due. Nigeria has teeming population of elites and so many universities and institutions of Higher learning. We just need to start somewhere and it will spread like fire. Bringing everyone together in Nigeria is like saying having a single meeting for those in Durban, Pretoria, Cape town etc; the geographically dispersed issue could be surmounted by handing a nation in regions (North, West, East, South and Central regions). This implies we need to use train the trainers approach whereby targeted trainings are done for trainers in representative regions. It is expected that these ambassadors will run with the vision and reproduce themselves. I also buy in into the Github issue.

We need to start somewhere, Olubukola

reshamas commented 5 years ago

I am an organizer for Women in Machine Learning & Data Science (WiMLDS). We have two chapters in Nigeria:

  1. Lagos
  2. Abuja

If you would like WiMLDS to share any information with these two chapters, please email us: info@wimlds.org

IgweKC commented 5 years ago

I can guarantee that Carpentry in Nigeria will spread like fire.

I still go with Anelda's opinion to focus on one training and make it a huge success.

Not that Oobabalola's idea is not fantastic but if there is a need to cut on cost (of travelling and sponsoring trainers), it will be a great idea to focus on one workshop at a time, the trained will then help train others.

(Kevin)

anelda commented 5 years ago

Hi @anelda This sounds exciting. There will indeed be more regional community efforts as the Carpentries grow, and I had the plan to set up such a community in Benin Republic (my home country and neighbouring country of Nigeria to the west), so I strongly believe that the Nigerian model would be a lead and I would like to be part of it.

I am availlable and would be willing to co-teach/help at the University of Ibadan in July 2019. I can help with:

  • Python
  • Shell
  • SageMath (I am not sure there are any SageMath lessons on the community but this is something we can organize beforehand).

@embray I am a mathematician and will be willing to assist you in teaching the mathematics portion.

Hi @gabayae! Great to hear from you and thanks for adding your information to the etherpad.

anelda commented 5 years ago

I still go with Anelda's opinion to focus on one training and make it a huge success.

Not that Oobabalola's idea is not fantastic but if there is a need to cut on cost (of travelling and sponsoring trainers), it will be a great idea to focus on one workshop at a time, the trained will then help train others.

Thanks @IgweKC @OOBabalola. I agree that running instructor training in Nigeria should be the next goal. From our experience it seems as if people who have not yet physically experienced a Carpentries workshop, find it harder to replicate the teaching methodologies, understand the importance of the code of conduct, and create the learning culture at workshops. In South Africa, Ethiopia, and Somalia, we tried to provide people an opportunity to participate as learner or helper in a Carpentries workshop before they do instructor training. It isn't always possible, but it really really helps instructor trainees to identify with the instructor training content and also to implement what they learn when they run their own workshops. It kind of follows the "See one, Do one, Teach one" maxim (explained here - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sodoto-see-one-do-one-teach-one_b_4372803 - I couldn't find a better reference quickly.)

To ensure the Carpentries workshops maintain the culture (it's much more than just the content) it would be ideal if people could join workshops before doing instructor training, then do instructor training and teach alongside a more experienced person, and then teach as lead instructor. It seems like a big ask, but if you want to plan a national initiative, and want to make sure people connect with the community, it is important to think about how to maximise the return on investment (of time, and money, and fellow community members' time and money).

In SA we kind of followed this approach after running some workshops with international instructors. Here is a proposal that we developed in the early stages of Carpentries in SA - https://figshare.com/articles/A_Programme_for_the_Development_of_Computational_and_Digital_Research_Capacity_in_South_Africa_and_Africa_-_phase_1/3382168.

CObieze commented 5 years ago

Hi @anelda I am interested in participating at the workshop. I am currently in the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria as a Ph.D student. I can co-teach/help with git and shell at the planned Ibadan workshop.

anelda commented 5 years ago

o share any information with these two chapters, please email us:

Dear @reshamas thanks so much! Sounds like your community might be a very good place to look for future instructors and helpers.

Do you perhaps know of funding one could apply for to assist with mobility of people to get to e.g. a Carpentries workshop or instructor training?

cosamede commented 5 years ago

Hi @anelda. I can co teach Shell and R during the workshop. I have completed my check out in December and it will be a privilege to start at home.

anelda commented 5 years ago

Hi @anelda, plans to organize a carpentries workshop at the Federal University of Technology Akure is > currently in place.

Hi @denironyx, this sounds great.

To everyone in Africa planning to run workshops and wanting to brand it as Software, Data, or Library Carpentry workshops, please remember the following:

Finally, please remember that all materials developed by the Carpentries community is available for free under open licenses, which means you can use it in any workshop or teach it without following the above rules, as long as you acknowledge where you got the material from. Also if you do not follow the rules set out above, please brand the workshop as a Carpentries-based workshop or other so as not to confuse people about what a Carpentries workshop is.

Please let us know if you have any questions about this.

anelda commented 5 years ago

Hi @anelda. I can co teach Shell and R during the workshop. I have completed my check out in December and it will be a privilege to start at home.

Dear @cosamede please will you add your information to the etherpad - https://pad.carpentries.org/Nigeria2019

anelda commented 5 years ago

Peter asked on Discuss how many qualified instructors are based in Nigeria. The problem is that it is hard to report these kind of stats as not everyone keeps their Carpentries profiles updated. According to the database there are 2 qualified instructors. There are many more based in Nigeria who have taken the instructor training but haven't completed the training and/or the checkout process. There are a large body of Nigerian instructors outside of Nigeria.

compsoftnet commented 5 years ago

Thanks @anelda for bringing the discussion from discuss and for the information provided. Since we have two certified instructors that currently reside in Nigeria, we can reach out to them to co-teach with @embray and those that are yet to complete the training or checkout process to co-served as helpers. I will be happy to discuss further with Dr. Chris, during the DRIF event in Lagos. Chris and I are on the same panel to contribute on Refugee Digital Rights. He is one of the Carpentry certified instructors. @embray kindly reach out to your friend again to confirm the willingness to host the workshop in July and get back. @all, I would suggest we only open the workshop application to only Ibadan residents to reduce cost to the minimal while helpers and instructors can be brought outside of Ibadan.

embray commented 5 years ago

Hello @compsoftnet, sorry I've been slow to get back to this discussion the last few days. I'll be able to add more soon. This is great news that there are already some certified SWC instructors in Nigeria; that's more than I thought, and should be a big help if they're interested and available.

Some clarifications in case it wasn't obvious: I am a certified SWC instructor (one of the first in fact, before there was any "certification" as it were) and have taught several workshops. Though I haven't taught any in the last 2 years so I'm a little behind on the lesson material (I did just help at a workshop two weeks ago though so I got a taste of it). And in case it wasn't obvious I am not based in Nigeria and have never even been there. My involvement in this is entirely incidental, though I would be interested and excited to go, and my project has funding for travel. We would be combining the SWC part of this workshop with a longer workshop focused on open source computer algebra systems, particularly SageMath. So it's important for the purposes of this workshop to get some Sage people involved too. I think, as you already know, @slelievre has expressed interest in attending as well.

I will bring the organizer in on this discussion though, as that's obviously the most important person to have! It's just good to see that there are people interested in helping to make this happen.

embray commented 5 years ago

Also,

I would suggest we only open the workshop application to only Ibadan residents to reduce cost to the minimal while helpers and instructors can be brought outside of Ibadan

I agree, that makes sense. Echoing @OOBabalola's comment I think that for a lasting success it would be imperative to bring in a few helpers, instructors, or potential future instructors from other regions. It's such a geographically and ethnically diverse country, so it would be good to bring in people from many corners to return excited to bring SWC to their home institutions.

compsoftnet commented 5 years ago

@embray Thanks for your responses. And very good to hear that you still have funding to attend the workshop. Maybe you can also canvas for us to get a little support for the workshop from your project sponsor :) However, the host need to confirm the date and resources that is available for the workshop.

Also, it would be good for learners and helpers that are currently residing in Nigeria who have signed up to the Carpentry database to indicate interest for this workshop.

I await responses to take this further. Regards. Peter

anelda commented 5 years ago

Dear all, thanks very much for your inputs and for connecting here. I notice that there is sufficient connection between people here and will withdraw from the conversation at this point. Please contact me at anelda.vdwalt@gmail.com if you need any specific information or assistance from me or admin-afr@carpentries.org if you need further assistance from the Carpentries.

@sheraaronhurt please will you be able to keep an eye on this until the African Regional Coordinator has been appointed?

Glad to see that this platform has been successful in allowing people to connect.

All the best with your workshop(s) and further planning!

sheraaronhurt commented 5 years ago

@anelda yes I will be! Thanks, Sher!

JasonJWilliamsNY commented 5 years ago

I am probably going to attend the Biotechnology Society of Nigeria (BNS) IITA 2019 conference in Ibadan Nigeria, August 2019. Depending on how timing works out, maybe there is some useful contribution I can make.

anelda commented 5 years ago

@JasonJWilliamsNY that is an amazing opportunity. We have sometimes used similar opportunities to run short community building activities so that local community members have an excuse to come to one building and meet each other and the visitor.

Examples are at https://tenet-rccpii.github.io/2018-12-03-KZN-CommunityEvent/ and https://tenet-rccpii.github.io/2018-11-16-WC-CommunityEvent/.

If you can't spare much time, and a local host could organise a room and coffee or something, this may be a good follow up to the workshop that will take place in Ibadan in Nigeria with @embray and team.

Alternatively, of course if you had more time, there are loads of things the Ibadan hosts could consider doing in partnership with you.

CarolineNWU commented 5 years ago

Great Jason, I see this as a great opportunity to add another international flavour to the workshop proposed for Ibadan.

Though we need to consider how much time you have, just thinking also that in addition to follow ups and community building, a workshop can also be scheduled in Ibadan or any other nearby state like Lagos, Ondo (Akure where Dennis is planning for a workshop this April) and others depending on availability of partnership.

I believe other colleagues in those States are on this platform and might want to help us know how they can take advantage of Jason's presence in Nigeria depending on how much time he has.

Also opportunity of hosting a workshop in IITA can also be looked into.

Trying to widen our horizon and looking for how to maximize this opportunities, trust these ideas can be expanded on.

Best

Caroline F. Ajilogba, PhD

Microbial Biotechnology Group (Lab G09)

Department of Microbiology (Rm G10, New Sci. Building),

Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences,

North-West University, Mafikeng Campus.

Private Bag X2046, Mmabatho 2735,

South Africa

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JasonJWilliamsNY commented 5 years ago

@anelda @CarolineNWU - thanks for the quick feedback! I will know more in the next few weeks about my schedule and then when plans look settled I will have a better idea of what will be possible!

embray commented 5 years ago

@JasonJWilliamsNY Based on what I've discussed with the host, they want to hold the workshop sometime soon, in mid-July (and time is ticking on quickly which means I need to start preparing with things like getting a visa, etc.)

I have pointed the host to this discussion and we'll see what they have to say.

compsoftnet commented 5 years ago

Thank you for liaising with the host @embray.

@Host, Since your attention has been pointed to this discussion, kindly react to allow @embray @JasonJWilliamsNY and other folks to prepare for the workshop.

Let's keep the dice rolling!

chrispunjoku commented 5 years ago

I think one of the issues we may have, holding a workshop in Nigeria asides having a venue is; the power supply.

As @UPChukwudi and @anelda rightly stated, electricity can't be an obstruction at all. Use of private electricity generating sets is such a norm in Nigeria that a worker even takes their personal generating set to office to get a valued office task done whenever necessary. There'll always be such a set for Carpentries' use in a workshop anywhere in Nigeria.

chrispunjoku commented 5 years ago

This is a very good initiative and I am fully in support of it. I am a Nigeria but reside in South Africa. There is a very internet access in Nigeria and also in some places good electricity. So, I do not see this as a problem.I will be also be interested if I am called upon to help. Thanks Anelda.

You're already in the deal, my dear @sapmarvins . Please feel free to express on the etherpad https://pad.carpentries.org/Nigeria2019 the help you'll give. Rands (how many)? Teaching (R? Python? Git? Shell? SageMath?). Whatever that'll be useful toward ensuring that the meeting holds. Thank you so much for your oozing interest.
Chris

chrispunjoku commented 5 years ago

o share any information with these two chapters, please email us:

Dear @reshamas thanks so much! Sounds like your community might be a very good place to look for future instructors and helpers. Totally agree. The two Nigerian chapters of WiMLDS will be a big resource for Carpentries Nigeria. So, we'll certainly reach out to WiMLDS. Many thanks, dear @reshamas, for coming in with this critical info and for your enthusiasm.. Chris

chrispunjoku commented 5 years ago

This is really a great discussion. We've got somewhere meaningful. I've counted 6 instructors and helpers: Bray, Lelièvre, Ulrich (Gaba), Henry (cosamede), Chinedu (Obieze), Olatunbosun (both those mentioned here and on Etherpad). I’m impressed, being a Nigerian agog to see the Carpentries flourish in Nigeria.

Apart from Bray and Lelièvre who're being sponsored by his project for SageMath meeting, the others will need funding for their transportation and 3-night accommodation+feeding. Chinedu will be travelling to Ibadan from Port Harcourt, also in Nigeria (about 9-hour journey on road); Ulrich and Olatunbosun are in South Africa and so would fly to and from Nigeria.

Options:

  1. If funding would be difficult for interested instructors outside Nigeria, can they teach remotely?
  2. Can we say only those based in Nigeria should do it with Bray?
  3. Since it’s like we have more than 2 badged instructors interested and over two helpers as well, can we limit to 2 + 2 (if we’ll have up to 15 participants) and are there any instructor/helper who probably would want to be on a waiting list? (in case someone be overtaken by something else or as I expect the moves I’m making for a workshop in southeast Nigeria to pay off).
  4. While we hope for funding from big donors, it’s possible for each of us to donate whatever amount of naira, dollars, pounds, rand, euros we can afford to part with for this noble cause. I’m donating 2000 Naira.
  5. It’s also possible to crowdfund from friends, work colleagues, relations and well-wishers (through in-person contact, e-mail and social media). Can we explore this?

Best regards, Chris

compsoftnet commented 5 years ago

@chrispunjoku You cleared my mind. Teaching remotely would be based on the kind of tool or language in focus, but we can explore that option. Also, if we can't get funding, the option of in-country instructors and helpers will be a good idea. I am also ready to support the workshop with little cash. In moving forward, the organizer need to confirm their interest in hosting this workshop to enable us open the call for application and plan for logistics.

CPU :)

embray commented 5 years ago

Still working on it--AFAIK we have a few people (myself included) interested in coming from outside Nigeria whose travel can be funded by my project, OpenDreamKit. Unfortunately we can't provide funding for locals. Still working with the organizers to find out what we can do and get everyone who's interested together in one place. Sorry it's taking so long. I think it would be great if we can have some qualified SWC instructors from within Nigeria.

embray commented 5 years ago

Hello again, and sorry for the long silence. I just spoke to the organizer at University of Ibadan, Ini Adinya, and things are moving forward on this. They have a room set up and are starting to take applications for people to attend.

We have a page set up for the workshop at https://wiki.sagemath.org/days102 , where it's listed as a Sage Days workshop, since for this particular case open source mathematics software, especially with Sage, was always intended to be the focus. But it will also start out as a Software Carpentry workshop (so perhaps if we get some official support from SWC we can also put up a SWC event page).

The main question now is just a question of who can attend, what kind of support do they need in order to attend, and then who will do what. This has been challenging for me to answer, because ever since I started mentioning the possibility of a Sage Days / SWC in Nigeria to different people there has been an explosion of interest, and different people sort of moving forward on making this happen without a lot of central coordinating. That is, there have been disparate conversations between GitHub, e-mail, phone calls, and other things and not everyone involved has been in the loop every step of the way. Of course, this is a good problem to have, that there is so much interest!

I will make a point today to fill out everything I know in the etherpad at https://pad.carpentries.org/Nigeria2019 and I will also post a summary here once I'm done with that. There is also a mailing list set up for the workshop at https://listes.math.cnrs.fr/wws/subscribe/stm-nigeria-2019-org?previous_action=info (I believe anyone can subscribe).

I'll send coordinating e-mails to that list, but I'm not sure yet if everyone who's interested is reading it, so I've also been CC-ing peoples' e-mails directly.

embray commented 5 years ago

Note: I have opened #3 specifically to continue discussion of this workshop in particular.

chrispunjoku commented 5 years ago

The main question now is just a question of who can attend, what kind of support do they need in order to attend, and then who will do what. This has been challenging for me to answer, because ever since I started mentioning the possibility of a Sage Days / SWC in Nigeria to different people there has been an explosion of interest, and different people sort of moving forward on making this happen without a lot of central coordinating. That is, there have been disparate conversations between GitHub, e-mail, phone calls, and other things and not everyone involved has been in the loop every step of the way. Of course, this is a good problem to have, that there is so much interest!

Thanks for your inspiring update, @embray

  1. If by this question, you mean Carpentries instructors and helpers, we need communication soon from @cosamede @gabayae @CObieze @sapmarvins @compsoftnet etc. Fellows, let's know right away that you'll be in Ibadan for the first two days (15-16 July), that you need partial or full or no financial support, and how much you need. If the question is about other participants, I think Carpentries workshop participants are usually self or employer-sponsored. The value of the lessons is so stressed that they see need to invest in taking them.

  2. I've looked at the information on https://wiki.sagemath.org/days102, and think a Carpentries Github page can be created as well for this event (but will bear 15-16 July as dates plus Carpentries lessons: Shell - http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice, Python - http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder, Git/Github - http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice). The link to the Carpentries Github page will be shared also with @reshamas to share with their Lagos and Abuja chapters of WiMLDS.

  3. @embray Like how many people are expected for a typical SageMath workshop? Is this event being publicized also through posters and handbills and any other channels? It's important to know this because a wide publicity is likely to bring in such a number of participants that will require a larger room than what's already available and more Carpentries helpers than a few.

What do we think?

Best, Chris

embray commented 5 years ago

@chrispunjoku Let's follow up further in #3. As for publicization of the event I believe that is mostly up to the organizers, but the WiMLDS connection would definitely be good to have. I'll follow up with @reshamas .

elletjies commented 2 years ago

Hi all,

I am Angelique Trusler, the African Capacity Development Manager at The Carpentries. I am leading The Carpentries efforts to support and grow our volunteer community across the African continent.

I am re-opening this thread to reach out to you today to hear how we can grow and support The Carpentries community in Nigeria!

If you might be interested in hopping on a call to discuss this further, please respond to this message or email me at angelique@carpentries.org. Feel free to tag anyone interested in joining The Carpentries in Africa!

I am looking forward to hearing from you🌍.