I find myself reading the weirdest things on the net. I thought I would share some of the things I find about on Africa every once in a while. Inflation in Harare — a year ago I wrote about the inflation in Zimbabwe is whacking normalcy out of place. And now a teacher says that [...]
Published by January 27th, 2009 in African and Current Issues.Tag Archive for 'africa'
I look up different thing all the time, thanks to Google – my brain full of numbers that might not mean much to my daily routine. Tusker is a beer in Kenya- apparently it’s the Kenyan version Heineken. This summer I made a call to a Jamhuri Guy in NYC to buy this Addis Ababa [...]
Published by September 10th, 2008 in African, Current Issues and Noteworthy.There is a saying that football (soccer) is the beautiful game in the world. But after watching the extreme violence and brutality of football fans in the movie “The Football Factory,” I was left to wonder if that saying was an irony. This movie unfolds the dark world of British Hooligan culture thats replete with [...]
Published by June 23rd, 2008 in Childhood and Social.This is the image of earth at night, via Google’s Earth’s Earth light. You can take a closer look at the whole world here. Africa is very dark. No lights if you take a look at this image. Europe, and US are very bright. Japan is the brightest. India and east China are coming on [...]
Published by May 30th, 2008 in African, Current Issues and Thoughts.The name Bernos comes from the Arabic word burnous/burnoose for one-pieced cloak like clothing worn my Arabs. The Arabs, who migrated to northern Africa and the Berbers take on this, was to make one of wool, a lot warmer than the Middle Eastern version. Burnous is worn throughout Northwestern Africa especially in Burkina Faso; its [...]
Published by October 12th, 2006 in History and Noteworthy.
