The Lagos Transit Lounge- Lonely if you must spend the night between flights
Lagos' Murtala Mohammed Airport from the tarmac
Named after a past Nigerian leader, as is the practice in Africa
Dakar Airport from the tarmac
Banjul Airport- recently upgraded from a cattle shed-like structure by an AU meeting in 2006
Dakar's Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport Airport from the street- ongoing construction works. Nothing fancy to warrant all the fascination US Presidents have for Senegal.Patrick Smith (columnist), author of the long-running 'Ask the Pilot' column for
Salon.com, called it the 'World's Worst Airport', commenting that he found there 'only squalor, an unnerving sense of confinement and to some extent danger'. I agree- I missed my connection due to the immigration officer's insistence on talking french only to proudly let me know of their prowess in english after the connecting flight was long gone!
Bamako's Senou International Airport - they have frenchmen cleaning plane cabins and supplying food. In Africa! In 2009!
The Lagos Transit Lounge- Lonely if you must spend the night between flights
Lagos' Murtala Mohammed Airport from the tarmac
Named after a past Nigerian leader, as is the practice in Africa
Dakar Airport from the tarmac
Banjul Airport- recently upgraded from a cattle shed-like structure by an AU meeting in 2006
Dakar's Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport Airport from the street- ongoing construction works. Nothing fancy to warrant all the fascination US Presidents have for Senegal.Patrick Smith (columnist), author of the long-running 'Ask the Pilot' column for Salon.com, called it the 'World's Worst Airport', commenting that he found there 'only squalor, an unnerving sense of confinement and to some extent danger'. I agree- I missed my connection due to the immigration officer's insistence on talking french only to proudly let me know of their prowess in english after the connecting flight was long gone!
Bamako's Senou International Airport - they have frenchmen cleaning plane cabins and supplying food. In Africa! In 2009! 
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