"The food security situation in the arid and semi-arid regions of Kenya is rapidly deteriorating." (source [PDF])
source: IFRC [PDF] More Maps? => ReliefWeb.NL …

Speaking of 1960s & Co, Monsieur Glückauf! today indirectly pointed me to Jean-Marie Boursicot’s Film Library [which] provides a huge database of more than 700 000 commercials. They also have this Gauloises commercial I’ve mentioned the other day.
A country/continent search on "Africa" reveals the following commercials among others:
FIAT 13, [...]

Despite all those indy/alternative/emo/electro/whatever-tunes I normally go for, I am an avid collector of (good!) music from the continent. Not necessarily new stlyes from the West or East – but the Golden Age of 1960s when music was still kick-ass and many African countries busy with celebrating independence (Uhuru!!). Why? I don’t know. It’s [...]

@afromusing: hint, hint :-)

Curiousity had kept me busy, wondering what’s in that Tower at Parliament Buildings in Nairobi, Kenya.
Possible answers to this serious question – which could have been an issue with Hon. Watchman – included "toilets, a secret golf range, city clerks peddaling on a bicycle that generates power for the installed [...]

My roommate and I took these interesting weather conditions with their -11.4°C (+11.5°F) temperature & icy wind as a perfect incentive to eventually clean the unconspicuous cultural heart of this shared flat:
Mr. Refrigerator a.k.a. kichaga bia
While outsourcing the contents of this beloved and very important beer container to the already frozen [...]

Just as ministers in governments inevitably think of a self-service store once they are in power, the following picture – aptly named "mbuzi twins" – might cause my kenyan readers to think of nyama and nyama mtoto.
…whereas my german readers will think something like: "oh, look, a sheep goat. Huu…oh, is she [...]