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Maybe we can finally get rid of that BBC stock image of ‘veils of Muslim world’.
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Dar Es Salaam postcards
Although often dismissed as tourist kitsch, in the hands of a talent like Greyson J. Mugisha, the Tingatinga style achieves clarity of structure and form, with wonderful use of color and line.
Picked these up at the Serena Hotel, Dar Es Salaam, August 2012.
Image credits: 1. Birds, Animals with Tortoise (Ndege, wanyama na Kobe); 2. Cheetah with Birds (Duma na Ndege). Both by Greyson J. Mugisha, Manyatta Arts
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African Students Who Invented Anti-Malaria Soap, Awarded $25,000
AFRICANGLOBE – Two African students have created a malaria-repellant soap using local herbs, and have won, consequently, a $25,000 Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) award.
The GSVC is the only international competition of Social Business Plans, dedicated to students, young graduates, and entrepreneurs with high social and/or environmental startups.
Moctar Dembélé who hails from Burkina Faso and Gérard Niyondiko, from Burundi, are the first non American born/citizen, to win the Global Social Venture Competition. [Read more.]
Yeahhh, Burundi!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/f85cad58cc669d95675ffe77a07a9937/tumblr_mlk3t8q8OG1qzmh88o1_500.jpg)
African Students Who Invented Anti-Malaria Soap, Awarded $25,000
AFRICANGLOBE – Two African students have created a malaria-repellant soap using local herbs, and have won, consequently, a $25,000 Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) award.
The GSVC is the only international competition of Social Business Plans, dedicated to students, young graduates, and entrepreneurs with high social and/or environmental startups.
Moctar Dembélé who hails from Burkina Faso and Gérard Niyondiko, from Burundi, are the first non American born/citizen, to win the Global Social Venture Competition. [Read more.]
Yeahhh, Burundi!
“Can you feel the love tonight” scene based loosely on/inspired by Pug’s design of human!Simba, which I really like :D
/FUCKING EXPLODES
/SCREAMING
WOW HOTTIES
Human versions. Yes, this is cool.
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Here in Zanzibar, it is not uncommon for me to hear:
“hey baby”
“come here”
“hey beautiful”
“are you married?”
“Got a man back home? If you do, I’ll be your man here”
“I love you!”
“I like girls like you”
every time I leave my house. I promise that I’m not making this up. There’s always an awkward stare, an unwanted lip lick or a blatant grab of my behind. I’m not saying this to feed my own self confidence. Goodness knows I’m already confident enough on my own.
But the point of this post is to talk about my friends Jon and Erik. Jon and Erik are both males and I consider them to be pretty good friends here in Zanzi. I realized the other day why I actually like them. It isn’t because they’re awesome conversationalists. It isn’t because they’ve got the world’s most interesting stories to tell. It isn’t because I’m sexually attracted to them. It is because they’ve never come on to me.
Jon- Did in fact like a friend of mine but after she left, has continued to talk to me and text me just to say hi. We’ve danced together at parties and clubs with just a simple kiss on the cheek for farewells. He’s asked me if I had a boyfriend because he thought the idea of a *double date* would be fun.
Erik- met him on the beach playing cards and drinking way too much rum. He’s called me to tell me that he’ll be in town and he’d like to hang out since then. He gives wonderful hugs and doesn’t expect anything else. He’s a funny guy who gets a good portion of his living off of tourists that roam the beach looking for something to blow their money on. I’ve protected him from getting arrested by telling the police that we’d been friends for years. We like each other. In a completely platonic way.
Now I come from a background in the United States where my body type isn’t considered desirable. I’m a bigger girl. Granted, I’ve never been short of at least a suitor or two, I’ve never had the onslaught of men chasing me like I do here in Zanzibar. It’s not something I’m used to, nor is it something that I particularly like. So I just want to send out a thank you. Thank you to all of my platonic friends. Thank you to guys who maybe do want to be a little more than friends but don’t yell it out because you think you’re entitled to it. I appreciate it.
Jonah: A Story of Legend, Friendship and Survival
Jonah is a short by Kibwe Tavares. It is set in Zanzibar and looks at the effects tourism can have on a country from an economic and environmental perspective. Mbwana and his best friend Juma are men with big dreams. Dreams that become a reality when they photograph “the world’s biggest jumping fish” leaping out of the sea.
Their tiny town soon blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn’t what he dreamed – when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive.
More here
Must. See. This. Movie.
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Genus Sivatherium
Literally meaning Shiva’s Beast after the Hindu deity. is an extinct genus of giraffid (in the family Giraffidae) that lived in Africa and India within the last 8,000 years evidenced by cave paintings in the Sahara desert. they resembled an okapi but alot bigger at 10ft tall an weighing at 500kg, like Giraffes today they had “antlers” on their head but unlike extant giraffes their “antlers” were alot bigger, and in turn a thicker neck in-order to support their large heads.
Phylogeny
Animalia-Chordata-Mammalia-Artiodactyla-Giraffidae-Sivatheriinae-Sivatherium
Giraffe Moose?
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The Mwalimu Nyerere African Union Scholarship Scheme (MNAUSS) has received support under the Africa - India strategic partnership for some special scholarships in the field of Agriculture for African s working in African institutions of higher learning and research.
The Africa - India Capacity Building Scholarship Programme comprises:
1) Capacity Building Masters Degree Scholarship
2) Special University Lecturers PhD Fellowship Programme
The Commission of the African Union is pleased to announce the 201 3 Call for the Africa - India Fellowship Programme , tenable in reputable Indian Universities. Note that the academic session commence s in July 2013 .
Anyone in the southern hemisphere whose sky views are not obstructed by clouds, look to the skies this evening or the next or the next - until the 12th of March. There are two comets visible in the sky right now! (The first image is an animated GIF that shows the comets’ trajectories. The second image is NASA’s APOD photo from the 5th of MArch)
Comet Panstarrs is about 240°W and about 10° above the horizon while Comet Lemmon is about 225°W and 25° above the horizon. Both the comets will be visible through a small telescope or a pair of good binoculars (or a long exposure photograph). Only Comet Panstarrs will be visible to the naked eye.
A B&W field map can be found here (broad scale) and here (binoculars)
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“We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.”
“We face neither East nor West; we face Forward”
“Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.”
“A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.”
“We have the blessing of the wealth of our vast resources, the power of our talents and the potentialities of our people. Let us grasp now the opportunities before us and meet the challenge to our survival.”
“In the era of neocolonialism, under-development is still attributed not to exploitation but to inferiority, and racial undertones remain closely interwoven with the class struggle.”
