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The Long Dry Season Comes to Central Africa
Our weather consists of two seasons: Rainy and Dry. The latter, beginning in late June, lasts about three months, and the rainy season the rest of the year. Well, there is also quite a short dry-ish season in December-January. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Agriculture, Crop harvests, Goats, Imbo Plain, Lake Tanganyika, Living here
Tagged crop products, Doom Palm, Dry season, June, Lake Tanganyika, oil palm, Oil Palms, popular sport, Rain, Rainy, small enterprise, village folks, Wet season
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The Social Life of Beans in Burundi – Part 2
Part 1 of this blog discussed the different steps used by smallholders here in Burundi in cultivating, harvesting and processing beans. Below, a few more notes on these steps – together with thoughts on the challenges of emergency seed distribution following … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Agriculture, Burundi, Food, Food Aid, Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika2, Humanitarian Assistance, Imbo Plain, Recipes
Tagged Africa, Bukuru, Burundi, Cassava, Rice, Rwanda, Seed, South America
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Post-War Peace on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika: Riding High!
Civil war officially ended in Burundi in 2006. For several years thereafter, there have been sporadic fights and attacks, but these, too, have dwindled to almost ‘zero’. What changes has a blanket of peace brought? This blog concentrates on post-war activities on the … Continue reading
Discovering the Rusizi River, Did it flow IN or OUT?! Part VI
Hippos on a sandbar in the Rusizi River. Source Wiki This is the last post about the exploration of the Rusizi River on Lake Tanganyika, by Stanley and Livingstone. Though surprisingly, there were ‘armchair explorers’ back in England who doubted … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Burundi, Crocodiles, European explorers, Explorers & exploration, Gatumba, Hippopotimus, Imbo Plain, Lake Tanzanya, Rusizi River ^ Wetlands, Stanley and Livingstone, Uvira, Wildlife
Tagged Africa, Burundi, David Livingstone, Lake Kivu, Lake Tanganyika, Ruzizi River, Rwanda, Stanley and Livingstone, Ujiji, Uvira
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Discovering the Rusizi River, Did it Flow IN or OUT?! Part V
Continued from this blog. …On the second morning of our arrival at Mugihewa we mustered ten strong paddlers, and set out to explore the head of the lake and the mouth of the Rusizi. We found that the northern head … Continue reading
Discovering the Rusizi River, Did it flow IN or OUT?! Part IV
This email is a bit tedious – consisting primarily of names and geog. places discovered by Livingstone and Stanley. Finally, Stanley and Livingstone reached the top (north shore) of the lake, crossing from the eastern shore to the N.W. corner and … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Burundi, Colonialism, Crocodiles, East central Africa, European colonizers, Explorers & exploration, Gatumba, Hippopotimus, History-Recent, Imbo Plain, Lake Tanzanya, Livestock, Rusizi River ^ Wetlands, Stanley and Livingstone, Uvira, White Nile, Wildlife
Tagged Africa, Burundi, Central Africa, Great Lakes, Lake Victoria, Ruzizi River, Stanley and Livingstone, White Nile
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