Author Archive for Nolawi



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 [...]

Your Own Lies 46 Comments

We rationalize, and rationalize our actions. I pride myself in telling the truth,…” One would say and then just lessen the blow to ones integrity. I am sure I am guilty as well, I live my life in a way I am comfortable, but I know there are things in my life I have to [...]

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.

Adey Abeba 20 Comments

Irony — today makes 2001 in the Ethiopian calendar. It’s New Years on Sep 11th but here in the US Sept 11th is remembered for some else. I am not happy about this, Osama and the home boys picked the worst day in the Ethiopian Calendar to do this. I hope as we get going [...]

Elephantusker 12 Comments

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 [...]