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#Rewire. Reconsider your tribal tendencies. Look out for the different! 26 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
The expat Internet fora, and the Facebook Pages and groups like the occasionally, scarily narrow-minding Team Tanzania and the even more notorious and horrible 'I've Been A Victim Of A Crime in Dar' -...
Rohobot. Ethiopian food in Dar es Salaam 26 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm
One of Dar es Salaam's best secrets is #Rohobot, a little #EthiopianRestaurant tucked away between Namanga and Oysterbay. Interior is bright green, the woman in charge of the family-run business, is s...
Inhaling molecules. From #Tabata to #Ilala 23 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
I am driving the tiniest car in Dar es Salaam. Not fun on Mandela Road, when you end up in territorial fights, squeezed in between colourful and crude bodabodas, bajajis, daladalas, and monsterbig con...
Is the Universe trying send a message to the city planners and name givers of houses in #Dar es Salaam? 19 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
I drove down Haile Selassie. Passed the Atlantis, (New) Maisha, Nirvana, Elements, The Great Wall and Epi D'or. Is the Universe trying send a message to the city planners and name givers of houses in ...
A nyoka killed the watchman. Or was it the other way round? 19 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
Konyagi on ice. Fried kassava with pilipili. Seated under a friend's frangapania trees and coconut palms. Her 3-year old walks up to me, and hands over a flower he just picked, and turns on a face ful...
#IfIlookoutmywindow 16 Aug 2013 | 02:43 pm
If I look out my window I see a Turkish (I believe) man with a fat moustache, dressed in a tank top and shorts providing space for a black, hairy chest - and at the same time feeding my vivid imaginat...
#Poetry and performance. East Africa 2 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
I'm researching for an article on poetry, performance and expression in East Africa at the moment, and have been out there and around looking for where it happens. I have already done so for a while, ...
Paying for something you technically shouldn't be paying for, but which fills an empty stomach. 31 Jul 2013 | 08:31 pm
WIPERS. I was just looking for the word when two boys at a crossroads began to wash the windscreen. What's wipers in Swahili? The young boys flipped the wipers, so they pointed straight up into the sk...
'We need to catch up'. (No, we don't) 31 Jul 2013 | 11:15 am
Some time ago I was invited for dinner in Dar es Salaam where I happened to sit next to a so-called local celebrity who uses a lot of overly positive adjectives when describing personal and profession...
'Me and You Will Never Part'. A Donor Dependency #Kanga? 29 Jul 2013 | 11:05 pm
It is not Bongo. It is me. Bongo is absolutely the same as when I left it 4 months ago. I am looking for change. Women zigzag in traffic, dressed in threadbare kangas, washed over and over, wrapped ti...
