But now we're realising that we don't like a lot of the results".
But in the last few years we're realising that that's clearly not the case.
We're realising now, we never really see the other side of the country, outside the resorts.
"We're realising there is a much wider spectrum of disease," she said, adding that it could have been so from the start.
We're realising it doesn't just have to be cheap confectionary, but can have all sorts (if you'll excuse the pun) of culinary applications.
We're realising that there are so many potential things you could do to the site and we've reached a watershed.
"We're realising the importance of getting the right contracts in our extractive industries" said Mahaman Laouan Gaya, the secretary general of the mining ministry.
"It's really important to recycle, because more and more we're realising we are suffering from diseases that we can't explain," says Ms Gabou.
"It all happened very fast, but now we are realising that we have to value the old and traditional too.
But now we are realising that web-based business models and technologies have a concrete and dirty side.
