Category Archives: mapenzi

Après l’amour, le repentir.

Is this already mainstream cinema?

2 Days in Paris – a wonderful movie on sex, food and relationships.? And this although it beautifully covers the cliché of both the French & American’s inability to communicate in any other language …

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Ndanka ndanka mooy japa golo chi nyaay

Ndanka ndanka mooy japa golo chi nyaay is a Wolof proverb meaning “slowly slowly (it) catches the monkey in the bush” (~ no hurry in Africa).

Ndanka ndanka…also is a running gag between my colleague Abdoulaye and me – and …

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Kichango kuchangizana (part 2)

It just took me less than 2 minutes to donate some mbeca to the Red Cross Society in Kenya – online, via mamamikes.com.

With your support we will buy food, slippers, blankets, clothes, sanitary products, etc. All these items are …

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w00t!

Dear Colleagues,

in case I happen to be out of office during the next few weeks – here’s why:

Seriously, after 1hour of playing with this awesome gadget, figuring out all important shortcuts & testing various applications like surfing & phoning …

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Awesome Tapes from Africa

For those of you who love this particular tape culture from the continent, pls head over to “Awesome Tapes from Africa”, activate your delicious playtagger javascript bookmark/Browser button and tune into lots of fine songs.

Thank you, Brian!

It really makes …

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