Monthly Archives: January 2021

To give you a rough idea of the importance of taxis to my existence whenever I’m in Bamako, let me offer this number: in the field notes I wrote during my last research trip, a three-week visit to wrap up a decade-long study of urban marriage and polygamy trends, the word “taxi” appears 28 times–more often than the name of my wife who accompanied me, more often than “marriage” or “polygamy,” and nearly as often as “Bamako.” Continue reading →