Archive for the 'Thoughts' Category



Dear P-Card Co 22 Comments

I purchase many calling cards from your company online living in Durango, Colorado. Last week or so I bought a SOLO AFRICA calling card which at some point of use promised me 18 minutes. I made a call and it didn’t go through so I redialed. The automated system said now I have 14 minutes [...]

Feel the BEAT – CANCELED Comments

Friends and Family, Unfortunately, the AfroBeat party has been canceled due to matters that are out of our control. The venue is undergoing renovations. We are as disappointed as you are and we TRULY apologize. For those of you who were looking forward to the FREE TICKETS to the Magic System show on Sunday, we [...]

African Ingenuity 75 Comments

When remote African finds an inventive solution to a technical problem he or she is having. The innovations I find are inspirational. Like  this interesting story about a man in Kenya who created a plane from scratch. Using a Volkswagen engine, aluminum sheets and other parts, the man made a single-seat plane. He tested it [...]

Open Thread 33 Comments

Lost Comments So we lost the comments from last week till Thursday – I was transferring files from one server to the other and we lost it all. I am very very very upset by this because I am somewhat anal.

Ochre 25 Comments

Ochre is a deep golden yellow color and is one off my favorite colors. Banana Republic is famous for using it on many apparels. The new thing for world travelers is Namibia — an oxymoron of old Africa vs globalization and modernization of post colonial Africa. I read an article last week on the New [...]