Translate
-
dianabuja
My blog is about Africa. It is also about the Middle East and life in general, reflecting over 30 years of work and study in Africa and the Middle East – Come and join me!
Verified Services
View Full Profile →
Categories
Blog Stats
- 269,931 695
Top Posts & Pages
Top Rated
-
Recent Posts
- Petit Boy-Boy (Kittie) Goes Big-Time on LOL Cats (Maybe…)
- DESCRIPTION BY AHMED IBN-FOZLAN OF THE INCREMATION OF A NORSE CHIEF, 10TH.C.
- Happy May Day – A Great Burundian Holiday
- . . . And Then the Rains Came: Coping in Kajaga Village
- Quiz on Identifying Ancient Egyptian Plants
- We launch our new series on the people shaping African cuisine with Chef Pierre Thiam
- Can You Identify These Plants from Ancient Egypt?
- Special Times at the Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika – Come Visit!!
- A Visit to the Holy Land by Ida Pfeiffer in 1842
- Locusts and Hyenas: The Red Sea Hills of Eastern Egypt & Sudan
Blogs I Follow
- Rashid's Blog
- interdisciplinarydialogues
- Larry Hurtado's Blog
- Ancient Near East: Just the Facts
- Clio Ancient Art & Antiquities
- Dr Sustainable
- One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?
- Writing Your Way
- Petrie's Sardines
- A Year in Provenance
- The Heritage Trust
- Leaving Fundamentalism
- Ancient Lives
- Allana Potash Blog
- NAVSA BAVS AVSA
- TED Blog
- KM on a dollar a day
- Faces&Voices
- kateantiquity
- Food Governance
Some great posts:
Tweeting from Africa
- A Contextual Approach to the Emergence of Agr.in Southwest Asia: Reconstructing Early Neolithic Plan... | @scoopit sco.lt/56kMvBtweet to @dianabuja 10 hours ago
- Regarding Humanity wp.me/pqanl-1Yx via @wordpressdotcomtweet to @dianabuja 13 hours ago
- DESCRIPTION BY AHMED IBN-FOZLAN OF THE CEREMONIES ATTENDING THE INCREMATION OF THE DEAD BOD ... | @scoopit sco.lt/604X7htweet to @dianabuja 1 day ago
- Invest in higher education, including the social sciences, to promote growth in Britain (& the US?) | @scoopit sco.lt/4jR5zltweet to @dianabuja 1 day ago
- Back Matter: Commencement Day, 1818: a bit of victorian social darwinism? | @scoopit sco.lt/5GQAqntweet to @dianabuja 3 days ago
Cluster Map
Creative Commons
Tags
Africa Africa-General Agriculture AncientEgypt Ancient Egypt Arab Bujumbura Burundi Cairo Cassava Central Africa Congo David Livingstone East Africa Egypt food Goat History Humanitarian Assistance John Hanning Speke Kenya Lake Tanganyika livestock Livingstone Middle East Mungo Park Niger Nile North Africa Richard Francis Burton Royal Geographical Society Ruzizi River Rwanda Samuel Baker science South Africa Southern Africa Sudan Tanganyika Tanzania United States Upper Egypt West Africa Wildlife ZambeziAnd then they said …
A few members of the tribe
-
Category Archives: Sudan
Locusts and Hyenas: The Red Sea Hills of Eastern Egypt & Sudan
Following on the recent swarms of Locusts in Egypt and Israel, here is an update of a blog on the topic (and on hyenas): Previous blogs on work in the Red Sea Hills are found here and here. During the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-East, Africa-General, Africa-North, Africa-Southern, Egypt Desert Locust Authority, Egypt-Ancient, Egypt-Recent, Sudan, Wildlife
Tagged Africa, Desert locust, Egypt, Food and Agriculture Organization, Israel, Locust, Red Sea, Sahel, Sinai Peninsula, Striped hyena, Sudan, Western Sahara, Wildlife
1 Comment
Thanksgiving – and A Military Coup – in Sudan
Reposted for Thanksgiving 2012: In 1988 I became COP (Chief of Party) of the field component of a large natural resource management project in Western Sudan that was funded by USAID (US Agency for International Development). Situated south of el-Obeid, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Food, Food & Politics, Humanitarian Assistance, Research & Development, Social Life, Sudan
Tagged el obeid, Geographic information system, Geographic Positioning System, gum arabic tree, Sudan, Sudanese, Thanksgiving, United States Agency for International Development, united states geological service
4 Comments




























