Thoughts on Africa, often on the DRC
Twiga ranks 4397 in Africa and 20 in DRC. According to site visitors it ranks 1736, and 1464 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 8999 and 8905 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
A couple of days ago, I saw this brilliant short film titled Impasse and directed by Bram Schouw of the Netherlands : Although the style is very different, it reminded me of another brilliant short film that I saw quite a long time ago in some
Although the article then goes on to talk about the "tragedies and turmoil" of Eastern Congo, I found this first paragraph truly refreshing: When Hillary Clinton visited eastern Congo this week, she stepped into a land of fairy-tale beauty and incredible potential. I remember vividly the day in 1982
My expectations for interesting and original articles about Africa in Spanish papers are usually quite low. But I have to say today's La Vanguardia Sunday Magazine gave me a very pleasant surprise, with an 8-page spread titled Anhelos de África (something like Yearnings from Africa). The article focuses on a
Bamako Living is a blog about, er, living in Bamako as an American toubab married to a Malian. It's an interesting blog, but it doesn't have a lot of pictures which is usually a requirement for me to really enjoy a blog (that and not having a black background). So
Although I'm not into that kind of thing, apparently the Mongol Rally is a quite popular adventure that this year sold out in two minutes. Described as "an epic journey traversing a 10,000 mile gauntlet of deserts, mountains and bandits in Central Asia", it was followed by The Rickshaw Run,
Yesterday I wrote about the photography exhibit Still here, still human by Abbie Trayler-Smith on UK asylum-seekers. This reminded me of a recently released documentary that tells the story of a Malian woman and her daughter who are facing deportation in the US. The title is Mrs. Goundo's Daughter, referring
Browsing the BBC Africa website, I found an interesting In Pictures series by Abbie Trayler-Smith of asylum seekers in the UK whose claims have been refused by the government and so they now live without support. The pictures belong to an exhibit in a London gallery titled Still here, still
Do you remember these dolls made of fabric scraps? I bought some of them, and took the pictures that illustrate that blog post, in a sewing workshop that is part of a school for handicapped children in Bukavu. Besides the dolls, they make other things such as hand-embroidered tablecloths and
I just heard about a documentary about Senegalese musician Yossou N'Dour titled I bring what I love. According to the website, the film "takes you behind the scenes and into the world of Africa’s most famous musician". Although I'm not sure if other famous African musicians would agree with that
Earlier today a very interesting discussion took place on Twitter on the need to rebrand Africa positively. Started by @tmsruge interviewing international entrepreneur @mjamme, it was then joined by several people including @ajmunn, @kachile and @bill_easterly. They said things like: Have to rebrand perceptions of Africa in West &
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