Note: My Africander Soundtrack is still available for download.

On ludditerobot's rec, I've been watching National Geographic's Africa from 2001. (Thank you, Netflix!)

The immediate thought that jumps out at me: Were the Angel writers high when they tossed out the bon mot that Xander was in Africa in 'Damage'? The Sahara alone is the size of the United States. The entire continent is the size of three United States. Oh, yeah. Xander's working that all by himself. Not a chance.

( Why National Geographic Rocks Like a Rocking Thing )

Another good resources (also recced by ludditerobot) is the Lonely Planet guides. The West African one is especially good. It gets into nitty gritty details like whether there are banks, post offices, phone service, Ineternet services, etc. in a given city or town. It also spells out what modes of transportation exist to get between cities or towns and how those modes of transportation operate. Who'd think that this minutiae would be so useful? And yet, it's really, really useful.

And I would be remiss if I didn't give big props to the Waltham Public Library and the awesomeness of it's own stacks and multimedia resources. Holy crap! I love this city. And inter-library loan. Can't forget that.

So, I'd like to thank ludditerobot for thinking of the Africander fic-a-thon, if only because of the enjoyable research I'm doing. It's already helped flavor one story.

Now, I've got a to-do list as long as my arm. So no more writing or research for me until I spring-clean at least 3/4ths of my apartment.