Monday, March 25th, 2013
On a recent trip to the southern highlands of Tanzania, we decided to visit Lake Malawi, the third largest and second deepest lake in Africa. Lake Malawi is renowned for its fish life, and is possibly home to more species of fish than any other lake in the world. It’s also known to be one
Monday, March 18th, 2013
Images of Africa. Round-bellied children with flies on their faces. Destitute children in ill-fitting hand-me-downs playing in the dust. And so on, and so forth. “See how real Tanzanians (or Kenyans, or Rwandans, et al) live,” is...
Monday, March 11th, 2013
“When the poor start to hustle they criminalize it, so criminalize this,” sings Comrade Fatso. “Everyday we just –“ He holds up his hand to his ear, and the crowd obliges him, screaming “Korokoza!”. Korokoza is the...
Friday, March 1st, 2013
A Maasai, a delightful Canadian volunteer, and a Senegalese superstar walk into a bar… Not a joke, but a vignette of last weekend at Zanzibar’s Sauti za Busara music festival. Last weekend, Zanzibar’s oldest ruin, the Old...
Sunday, January 27th, 2013
“Hello, how are you, welcome Maasai shop.” Matthew Joseph gestures to a pair of tourists who glance at the small duka and quickly continue walking. He smiles and shrugs, beads jangling on his tassled body jewelry worn...
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
The languid, blood red African sun dipped under the horizon over the Ngorongoro Crater. In the fading light, I could still see herds of animals, too far away to make out at this distance, moving in unison...
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Women are adorned all over the world. In some places its makeup, in others neck rings or footbinding, in others its applebottom jeans and boots with the fur. In the Swahili coast, the epitome of beauty is...
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
Shopping whilst in a foreign country can be many thing. I usually find it stressful – digging through overly crowded shops with no rhyme, reason, or shelving units, having to visit six different stores to get everything...
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Of all the destinations East Africa has to offer, few evoke the soft-focus quality of Rwanda’s famous mountain gorillas. Was it too much to ask to have a soulful, majestic primate emerge silently from a swirling curtain...
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
“I’m leaving.” I stand up, spilling the deck of blue Bicycle playing cards across the table. “Rachel, come on, it’s just a game-“ “Save it. This is bullshit.” I get up to leave. “Calm down, I didn’t...
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