After Africa

Check out Puma's Football Song. Good energy

Fantastic music video, though nothing much new there when it comes to football related videos and Africa...

However, the publicity Africa is getting through the football and videos like this shouldn't be estimated. Lots of free airtime, so to speak, lots of free publicty.

And from new angles which Africa deserve to put on display.

That must be why we love this stuff - though cut over the same template. Makes you wanna go back there and be part of the energy.

Music by Gnarls Barkley.

Taken from Kate with thanks.

Imagine you're a Tanzanian women who has to give birth. In Tanzania.

A rather stunning photo documentation here on women giving birth in Tanzania.

Stunning in the sense, that  the conditions are almost unbelievable, and then again, they are not.

This is real, and one of the things about reality which truly illustrates the differences between the ones who have, and the ones who don't.

Registering to vote in Tanzania. For the first time

Read here how Elsie at the Mikocheni Report turns a trip to the voters' registration office in Dar es Salaam into poetry.

About 5,6 million new voters will vote for the first time at the coming presidential and parliamentary elections in Tanzania.

This is a clear case where I suffer from a significant job-related mental damage; I'd so like to be there when this massive group of new voters vote this time!

TedX Dar

Let me say it as it is:

I did not take part in the TEDxDar last Saturday.

I was invited a long time ago, and for a while I found myself in the awful combination of being honoured (for being asked) and annoyed (for not being in Tanzania), that I never got round to follow the live stream.

However, cool updates from Dar bloggers all over - and a decent sum up here at Swahili Street.

Really inspiring when somebody does something new.

The answer to Africa's (and Europe's) problems?

Zitto Kabwe today asks in his Facebook status: Do u think age is affecting our continent??

AFRICA
Mubarak (Egypt) age 82
Mugabe (Zimbabwe) 86
Pohamba (Namibia) 74
Banda (Zambia) 73
Kibaki (Kenya) 71
Gaddafi (Libya) 68
Zuma (South Africa) 68
Khama (Botswana) 57
Average: 72.4

THE FIRST WORLD
Obama (USA) 48
Cameron (UK) 43
Medvedev (Russia) 45
Harper (Canada) 51
Rudd (Australia) 53
Sarkozy (France) 55
Zapatero (Spain) 49
Socrates (Portugal) 53
Average: 49.6

I'll say; If 'close to retirement age' is the answer to Africa's problems, 'men with too much testoterone' must be the answer to problems in the other end of the world.

Check the comments here (I'm sure there will be plenty).

Black, white, blue in Soweto

On 22 May thousands of Pretoria's Blue Bulls rugby fans poured into Orlando Stadium in Soweto – the township famous for its historic opposition to apartheid – and were welcomed with open arms and waving flags.

See the slideshow here - and remember that these kinds of stories must also be told from Africa.

Happy Africa Day!

Africa Day is the annual commemoration on May 25 of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). On this day, leaders of 30 of the 32 independent African states signed a founding charter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 1991, the OAU established the African Economic Community (AEC), and in 2002 the OAU established its own successor, the African Union (AU or UA). However, the name and date of Africa Day has been retained as a celebration of African unity.

According to the Wikipedia.

Århus by day

Safari boots. European Style. European Price

If you have been long enough in Africa you may have come across the safari boots.

The vellies ('fellies') - as the Afrikaans nicknamed the 'felt shoe', originally a traditional Boer shoe, now produced in South Africa in many variations.

And in Denmark they are - once again - in fashion.

About 180 USD a pair.

Fortunately I bought mine in Bata in Nairobi!

Do also note Bata's Twitter account here.

Tuliho at the Copenhagen Carnival

 
Read about the band constellation and their European tour here.