‘I said to myself that he must be from a corrupt oil or mineral rich African country like Angola or Equatorial Guinea. The country, I said to myself, must also be a dictatorship. Diplomats from honest and democratic countries with a vibrant free press don’t wear $2,400 Clive Christian No.1 perfumes’ Recently I was in Paris […]
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Africa Doesn’t Have An Image Problem; It Has A Reality Problem; Plus The Story of Rwanda’s ‘Small’ Money And How The World Doesn’t Owe Us Anything
March 21, 2012 22 Comments Short URL Africa, Africa image, Africa: Altered States-Ordinary Miracles, African Union, Angola, Clive Christian No.1, CNN, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Nairobi, press freedom, Richard Dowden, Rwanda, South Africa, terrorism, Tickles, Wikileaks Aliens & Stars, Fast & Furious, Political Barometre
Burundi: A Nation Trapped By A Crocodile, Its Born-Again Track-Suit Addicted President, And The Mountains
Maybe you did, maybe you didn’t, watch the 2007 film “Primeval”. Primeval, originally titled “Gustave”, follows a news team sent to Burundi to capture a crocodile on Lake Tanganyika. That crocodile is called Gustave. According to a Wikipedia entry, in 2004 Gustave was estimated to be 60 years old, 20 feet (6.1 m) in length and […]
January 19, 2012 8 Comments Short URL Somalia, South Africa, Burundi, nation trapped, crocodile Gustave, Born-Again president, Primeval film, Lake Tanganyika, notorious man-eater, Major Pierre Buyoya, Ghana’s Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings, Hutu-Tutsi, Domitien Ndayizeye, Amilcar Cabral, Pierre Nkurunziza, AMISOM, Wikileaks, avocado, Bujumbura, maPeter, First Lady Denise, President Jakaya Kikwete, journalist Alexis Sinduhije, Tanzanian jail, Dar es Salaam, Burundi’s Barack Obama, Central Africa, murder, terrorism, treason, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Rwanda genocide, ethnicity, Grahamstown Yakky Politics, Rogue Stuff
