Today we drove to the Logos Island for our first two appointments, and the third was back on the mainland. Three good-quality suppliers, which was a pleasant surprise. When I learned that the Managing Director of the first company has a Chemical Engineering degree from University of Michigan, I told him I’m a Chemical Engineer as well, shook his hand, and said, “We are brothers.” We got a nice smile out of that.
“The Island,” as they call it, is very densely populated. We passed some nicer neighborhoods, but a lot of very poor ones as well. There were make-shift groups of tents along the water, and the now-familiar one room shacks with corrugated steel roofs. By contrast, the third supplier we visited was actually in a residential area, in a mansion that is beautiful by any standards.
We negotiated the notoriously bad traffic to get to the Dine Club for dinner. They had exactly the same fare as Sweet Sensation. I had fish and coconut rice. Good stuff. We made it back to the hotel by about 8:00 pm.
Tomorrow is an early start. We leave at 5:30 am to pick up Amaka and then head to the airport. We fly to Enugu, and then drive two hours to Onitsha to visit one supplier.
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