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A man leads his loaded bicycle through traffic in Ngong, Kenya.
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The Road to Nothingness
Vehicles take a detour due to construction on the Nakuru-Eldoret higway near Njoro, on the outskirts of Nakuru Town.
Hungry Land
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread”.
Mahatma Gandhi
Africa Knows about those harvests that bring the bread, she knows about the toil of sowing seed and the prayers for rain that come or do not come in season, or too heavily or too [...]
Waiting in Traffic
Traffic Costs Nairobi $746,000 Per Day
The Kenyan capital of Nairobi is struggling with crippling car congestion — a problems some say is so bad the country should consider transferring its capital to another city.
“Once known as East Africa’s green “City in the Sun”, Nairobi is so choked with traffic that Kenya’s architects suggest moving to [...]
Young Merchants
Two boys sell mandazis (fried bread) along the streets of Jinja in Uganda.
Gated Communities in Africa
SUBURBAN FEAR, MEDIA AND GATED COMMUNITIES IN DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
By MATTHEW DURINGTON
A disjuncture between the reality of crime and its perception has created a culture of fear within South
Africa that bolsters gated community development and an accompanying fear industry that supports media, private security companies, and a number of other industries that [...]
These Hard Times
That funny kind of dress you wear,
Leaves all your back and shoulders bare,
But you’re lucky to be dressed up to there,
In these hard times.
Photo Credit: Two small girls purchase goods at a little kiosk (duka) along Kenya’s Rift Valley near Burnt Forest.
Sinking Hopes
When I see the effect of flood on Sacred Acacia Trees, I am reminded of two things:
1. The prophecies of Joel in the Bible:
And it will come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drip with new wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded [...]
Back of the Truck
Men transported at the back of a lorry in Nairobi.
Get Some Washing Done
A woman takes her laundry to the river around Soy in Western Kenya.
The Spare Tyre for Nigeria
Yar’Adua brought in unconscious
THE United States’ Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, has said he hopes that the return of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua is not an effort by his senior advisers to upset Nigeria’s stability and create renewed uncertainty in the country’s nascent democracy. Carson, who made the submission in [...]
The Overarching Bleakness
The Overarching Bleakness
Life is often bleak and people are often cruel. This is what Samuel Beckett understood and he used words to punctuate the stream of events in our often grimy lives. Sometimes there are no words to be said and Beckett is “The Master of you can’t say anymore”.
We are all just going through [...]
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