Didge-ing at Dar airport
Brian sends us:
The Dar es Salaam airport is an interesting place. And the hordes of taxi drivers awaiting arriving passengers found me particularly interesting when I pedaled into the airport’s outdoor international arrivals ‘lounge’.
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Biker’s bum blues
Mel sent us a link to this:
When I left the town of Arusha on 24th July I knew I had a tough week of bicycle riding ahead of me if I was to keep to my tight schedule.
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Kalusha Bwalya
Priscilla sends us:
Year after year he still continues to work the magic of the curling left-foot kick. Kalusha Bwalya's achievements in Zambian sport can only leave us in awe of his God-given talent and humility.
Over the years, Kalusha has:
Won the African Footballer of the year in 1988
Rebuilt a Zambian Football team after the Gabon crash
Captained […]
.COMs in Zambia
Found this post:
The Taipei Times is reporting on Zambia's new interest in 'dotcomms' - the term commonly associated with the free cars that people can apply for.
According to Peter Mwale, who bought his car for only $250, the major cost is the freight cost of shipping the car from Japan to South Africa.
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Rolling the roads of north Tanz
This is interesting:
It was time to get my bum back on the bicycle and let it become reacquainted with the bumps of the awesome African landscape.
You can see the rest here.
Brighter futures at St Jude’s
Interesting:
Before packing my bags and cycling out of Arusha in Northern Tanzania I called into St Jude’s primary school to visit another group of self-less volunteers.
The entire post can be seen here.
Be Zambian, Buy Zambian
This is an interesting post:
How many times have you walked into Shoprite and bought a carton of fruit knowing that it was imported from South Africa? I'm sure that each of us are fully aware of this yet still fail to demand more local produce. The United States is going through a similar dilemma with […]
Reinvention Through Technology
Came across this today:
We came across an article that talks about the future of the Zambian youth in The Post. A quote from the article:
“We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only […]
A Tanzanian wildlife extravaganza
Just came across this:
Following our sensational climb of Mt Kilimanjaro my old school friend Luke Baker and I kicked off our second week of tourist activity with a wildlife safari – you can’t come to east Africa and miss out on seeing the big beasts!
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Bill, Melinda and Zambia
Just came across this:
We'd like to say thank you to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for selecting Zambia as one of the three countries to benefit from $44.7 million toward the fight against TB and HIV/ AIDS.
Whoever played a part in this has definitely brought further attention to the pandemic. Furthermore, support and attention in […]