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Tag Archives: East Africa
Happy May Day – A Great Burundian Holiday
May Day is enthusiastically celebrated here in Burundi – a great parade of workers from different organizations, families visiting and strolling the beach, and lots of food and drink. Boy-Boy - a huge Burmese cat who accompanied me when I came from Kenya – … Continue reading
Posted in Burundi, Cats, Living here
Tagged Africa, Bujumbura, Burundi, East Africa, food, Freedom of the press, Gatumba, May Day, Pierre Nkurunziza
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. . . And Then the Rains Came: Coping in Kajaga Village
Unusually heavy rains have caused havoc across much of east Africa, displacing thousands of people and damaging important infrastructure… In Burundi, flood-affected areas include the northwestern region of Bubanza, Bujumbura City and the plains of Imbo along the shores of … Continue reading
City States in the Sahel: Pre-European Kingdoms of West Africa
With the current efforts of France to address the efforts of Islamists in northern Mali, I am revising and reposting this blog on Sahelian history. First posted in 2012. Introduction: Recent events in the West African Sahel by way … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-North, Africa-West, African rice, Arab traders, Caravan routes, Niger River, Sahel
Tagged Africa, African Sahel, Arabic language, City-state, East Africa, Egypt, Environment, european colonizers, Famine, Lake Chad, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Niger River, North Africa, politics, Sahara, Sahel, Swahili language, Timbuktu, UNICEF, United Nations, West Africa
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Cuisines and Crops of Africa, 19th Century – The Limits of Pastoralism as a Lifestyle
[First posted 24 Oct 2009 Revised 04 November 2011] With the Horn of Africa so much in the news now, I am updating and reposting several links that focus on limited resources in the area. Summary: The importance of the relationship … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-East, Breeds of livestock, Colonialism, Cuisine, Environment, Explorers & exploration, fat-Tailed sheep, Food, Horn of Africa, Humanitarian Assistance, John Hanning Speke, Kenya, Livestock, Middle East, Nomadic lifestyle, Pastoralism, Somali, Somalia, Sourcd of the Nile, Swahili coast, Third World, Wild honey
Tagged Africa, East Africa, Horn of Africa, John Hanning Speke, Middle East, Mogadishu, Nile, somali, Somali people, somalia
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Discovering the Rusizi River – Did It flow IN or OUT?!, Pt. I
East African explorations in the mid 19th Century were overwhelming directed to discovering the source of the Nile in central Africa. Along side this goal, laying out ways and means whereby the English could establish a strong foothold in East and central Africa … Continue reading
Coffee Culture in Africa – an Historical Peek
Following on the last blog, about indigenous coffee in Uganda – and about other indigenous crops, here follows some passages from 19th Century explorers on ‘coffee culture’ and the agriculture of indigenous coffee in east Africa and the Sudan. The importance of … Continue reading
Rice in East Africa, 1860′s: Imported and Indigenous
Rice was introduced to East Africa by Arab and Swahili traders in the northern area of the East African coast, and by the Portuguese in the south (see this blog). It was a crop raised by Arabs, Swahili or Portuguese, … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-East, African rice, Agriculture, Burundi, Colonialism, East central Africa, Explorers & exploration, Food, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants
Tagged Africa, Arab, Burundi, David Livingstone, East Africa, famine food, Lake Tanganyika, national academy of sciences, Rice, rice porridge, West Africa, Wild rice
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