Location Ekok, Cameroon

Summary

Boxing Day 2025 started calmly—I slept well, which already felt like a win. The policeman who had helped me the night before said he’d come back in the morning to help me exchange my remaining naira, since once I moved on, Nigerian currency would be useless. I knew I wouldn’t be able to access any “real” money in Cameroon right away, so getting that exchange done was important.

We hadn’t agreed on a time, so I waited around until about 10:00 a.m., when he showed up on his motorbike. The exchange spot wasn’t far, and I changed a fairly large stack of naira into Cameroonian currency—thankfully ending up with far fewer bills than I started with. Later I realized I’d missed about 60,000 naira, which I’d sort out the next day.

On the way back, we made one more s ...