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under the crazy baobab tree

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random thoughts from, in and on africa and all sorts of exposures to the fantastic african elements

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  • idrissa guiro: barcelone ou la mort

    Posted on Sunday October 26th, 2008 at 02:18 in africa, Film, immigration, campaign, senegal, dakar, filmolog

    Barça ou Barzakh (Barcelone ou la mort, Barcelona or Death) is Idrissa Guiro’s first film and an eye-opener that shows the link between the massive overfishing by the EU fishing fleets in Senegal (and West Africa) and migration to Europe. The...

  • donkey mobile library

    Posted on Friday October 17th, 2008 at 02:32 in reading, development, campaign, ethiopia, yohannes gebregeorgis

    Have you ever heard of donkey mobile library? If not, have a look at this inspiring clip from Awassa, Ethiopia, featuring Yohannes Gebregeorgis’ fantastic initiatives that help children in Ethiopia to have access to books also outside school. G...

  • launch of A24 Media

    Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 04:02 in africa, journalism, wired

    This link will take you to the website of A 24 Media, a recently launched online delivery site for material from African journalists, broadcasters and NGO’s. Now you have the opportunity to have access to news material without international cre...

  • support training through donated technology

    Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 in charity, campaign, senegal, dakar, information technology, recycle

    The Ndiagamar School Project in Dakar would like to encourage companies and individuals to donate computers and computer equipment so that voluntary-based schools in Senegal can put them to work for a while longer. Donating computer equipment to the...

  • sons of bilal, sons of the bambara

    Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 02:36 in Islam, morocco, arabica, gnawa

    The qnawa are the descendants of the black African slaves that were brought into the Maghreb from the 17th century onwards. They venerate the memory of Bilal Ibn Rabah, an Abyssinian Christian slave that was freed and who became the Prophet’s muez...

  • queen of sheba and solomon the king

    Posted on Sunday July 20th, 2008 at 12:48 in literature, reading, ethiopia

    I heard about Eyeluta & Kirkos first time in Axum, where I saw these personages depicted in a pocket-size icon. I was told that they belong to the famous gallery of historical characters often present in Ethiopian orthodox iconography, because ac...

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