“We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women who have had years of education, to know nothing about the world, to have read nothing, knowing only some speciality or other, for instance, computers.”
“Reading, books, used to [...]

Jetzt bin ich schon fast drei Wochen in meiner alten dreiJahresHeimat Frankfurt am Main - und habe natürlich erstmal einen richtigen Stapel kostenloser Zeitschriften und Flyer angesammelt.
Das sind aber auch genau diese Kleinigkeiten, die es bei uns aufm Land in Suderburg nicht gab. Ok, die Unicum mit ihren McKinsey Anzeigen und anderem Erstsemesterblablub und dem [...]

It’s almost like as if they are already keeping the thumb on the phone’s red button.
Trying to call someone in Nairobi from abroad is easy and cheap, lakini most jamaas there - it seems - are used to 10 seconds conversation: no long greetings, a very short smalltalk and then an abrupt ending.
“Hellooo?”
- “Eh, hello, [...]

Steve already received his copy the other day, and since I found a perfect deal to secure mine for only 10,- EUR, I just couldn’t resist…
For more literature on contemporary music from the continent, here’s an interesting PDF (~0,2 MB) from the Depatment of Anthropolgy and African Studies @ the University of Mainz in Germany.
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“Frauen gelten hier nicht so viel, Carola….die kommen direkt nach den Ziegen.” (Quelle )
Also jetzt von oben oder von unten aus betrachtet?

Bridging the gap between the things you do, and those you only think about. Bridging the gap between the stuff you write, and the stuff you would like to write about more often.
„So what makes you special, why should I employ you and not someone else from Kenya? Why shouldn’t I employ a graduate from [...]

Now what’s this? My dad isn’t even buried yet, and another man I really valued died earlier this week: polish author Ryszard Kapuscinski, famous for his travel stories from the 1960s Africa among many other interesting books. He was one of those authors where you just wish the book never ends. My most favourite book [...]

1. US-$ 320 million. Now THAT’S a lot of money.
2. I really miss my guitar(s) as mentioned earlier. Something that will sweeten up lonely evenings in Embu and/or make me play along to the One Man Guitar show next door which happens to entertain me every single evening. Btw, what do you call these big [...]