Counter-Atlas of the Road

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Marrakesh → Lagos · 2026

Chapter 04 · Morocco

THRESHOLDATTENTION

Tan-Tan

(Desert threshold, moussem, fuel)

16 OctMorocco · desert thresholdanchor

The desert begins. What does the road ask of the body now?

For whom? · By whom? · Under what care?

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Reading conditions…

Capture · By whom?

Record one preparation the desert leg demanded.

Sound note · 15 s

Record one preparation the desert leg demanded.

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The ◉ photo button records a fragment. Voice and note record the field decision around it.

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Tap the reading that matches this chapter. The thermometer shows how different field lenses read the route.

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Provocation

What changes in the body when the coast becomes the desert?

Field log

Mark the moment the landscape tips from coast to desert, and what the group prepared for it.

Route scaffolds: images and sound seeds

These are route scaffolds, not confirmed stops. Each point holds a Wikimedia image slot, a Freesound query and a blog prompt so the road can replace the estimate with lived material.

Wikimedia slot

Query ready: Accra Ghana. The live API route can replace this placeholder with a Commons image and attribution.

Milestone 24 · Chapter 04

Accra

Ghana · Estimated sequence 24

Gulf of Guinea urban corridor

The Gulf of Guinea arrives as noise, heat and trade pressing together. The crossing is a relation, not a line.

Care note

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Freesound API seed

Gulf of Guinea port market traffic field recording

Wikimedia slot

Query ready: Aflao Ghana / Togo. The live API route can replace this placeholder with a Commons image and attribution.

Milestone 25 · Chapter 04

Aflao

Ghana / Togo · Estimated sequence 25

Estimated Ghana to Togo crossing

The Ghana to Togo border, where the crossing gate opens straight into Lome, Togo's capital. A frontier woven into ordinary street life.

Care note

Keep names, faces and voices private unless consent, context and a reason to publish are all clear.

Wikimedia slot

Query ready: Lome Togo. The live API route can replace this placeholder with a Commons image and attribution.

Milestone 26 · Chapter 04

Lome

Togo · Estimated sequence 26

Prototype chapter marker for Gulf of Guinea crossings

Togo's seafront capital, pressed right against the border. Port, beach and frontier share one short coast.

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Keep names, faces and voices private unless consent, context and a reason to publish are all clear.

Wikimedia slot

Query ready: Grand-Popo Benin. The live API route can replace this placeholder with a Commons image and attribution.

Milestone 27 · Chapter 04

Grand-Popo

Benin · Estimated sequence 27

Coastal Benin waypoint

Coastal Benin, lagoon and ocean and a slower stretch. A pause between two denser borders.

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Status

Estimated stop

Country

Morocco

Leg

330 km from Agadir

Practice

Road reading

Threshold

Where the coast road becomes the desert road

Tan-Tan marks the threshold where the Atlantic coast road becomes a Saharan one. It is known for the Moussem gathering of nomadic communities and stands as a staging point before the long desert legs.

What success looks like

A good fragment treats the threshold as a place in its own right, not only as a waypoint to somewhere else.

For whom?

Whose knowledge keeps travellers safe across this threshold?

By whom?

Record one preparation the desert leg demanded.

“A threshold is a place, not only a passage.”

Counter-Atlas note

“Note the preparation, not only the crossing.”

Field rule · this prototype