Fast Food
A woman sells boiled maize (corn) along a street in Nairobi’s Eastlands area.
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Mitumba
A man loads a hand cart with a package of used clothing (mitumba) to transport it to the market in Mwanza, Tanzania.
Offloading Grain
Young men empty a lorry of grain at Kasese in Western Uganda.
The Maize Seller
A woman sells roast maize (corn) along the outskirts of Eldoret Town in Kenya.
Pumping Fuel
A Total Petrol Station attendant fills the tank of a Toyota van at a filling station in Webuye, Western Kenya as the driver looks on.
The Sweeper
A man sweeps a paved path within the grounds of the Kampala Sheraton Hotel in Uganda’s capital city.
Chopping Firewood
A bare chested Emmanuel chops some firewood at a farm in Lugari, Kenya.
An Uphill Task
AGRICULTURE-AFRICA: Calls for Sustainable Green Revolution
By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA, Jul 4, 2009 (IPS) – Africa needs a Green Revolution, but one that will increase agricultural productivity by using practices that build soil fertility while minimising harm to the environment.
Organic farmers, traders and researchers from are pushing organic agriculture as suitable for Africa because it is based [...]
All in a Day’s Work
Endgame. By Samuel Beckett
CLOV (fixed gaze, tonelessly):
Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.
(Pause.)
Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there’s a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap.
(Pause.)
I can’t be punished any more.
(Pause.)
I’ll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for [...]
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