"I'm like 20 minutes away"
[ four months later ]
"I'm a three week boat ride away."
Funny how they call it Africa's third longest river instead of calling it by its name.
Honestly off the top of my head I wouldn't know that the Niger is Africa's third longest river, so I'm glad they call it that, since it makes the whole story more interesting than just an arbitrary river doing a weird thing.
Besides.. it gives it that clickbatey touch of " oooh, i wonder what's tge third longest river in africa! Better pause and check the article!"
Yeah, I know the Nile and the Congo, but the Niger just ain't got enough colonialist adventure stories about traveling up it ala Stanley and Livingstone. Which makes sense, because as we can see you'll just be disappointed when you find the source of the Niger.
Maybe to avoid confusing it with the country.
It's name is probably caught be most automatic word filters, being one letter off from a racial slur.
They should name it "Africa's second longest river" just for the lols.
And this is Africa's second longest river, the third longest river in Africa.
It really didn't want to go to Sierra Leone.
They know what they did.
I don't get it
It starts fairly close to the sea but takes an enormous detour to get there.
(Yeah I know that the geography probably doesn't allow the river to go anywhere else. It's a joke.)
