AFRICAN WORDS
26-04-2020 di redazione
AFRICAN WORDS
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We have selected ten sentences that express a feeling dedicated to Africa, understood more as a spiritual and moral, historical and social entity than as a geographical reality. The selected words are all taken from published...
MAL D'AFRIQUE
di Leon Mufasa
My mal d'Afrique is dedicated to those who have never been in Africa.
CULTURE
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The Kiswahili language, originally from the coast of the same name that goes from the north of Mozambique to the Horn of Africa and later adopted also by the rest of East Africa, particularly by...
Karen Dinesen Blixen lived in Kenya from 1914 to 1931.
She came there from the icy Denmark with her husband, baron Von Blixen, to buy a plot on the hills Ngong, near Nairobi, and build then a farm.
Rather being...
MAL D'AFRIQUE
di Tania Taffy
I'm afraid I'm not a fanatic of the sea and the hot holiday.
I do not even go for the resorts and the organized holidays.
The thing that brought me to Africa, Kenya, was the need for relaxation.
Stressed by...
BOOKS
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Discovering Africa as a young woman for love, living its dreams and contradictions with the enthusiasm of someone exploring her own emotional sphere.
Becoming a wife and mother amidst the boundless views of the...
Kuki Gallmann had "a story to tell".
This novel is his story.
HISTORY
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The story of the first Chinese to land on the shores of the Indian Ocean is six hundred years old.
According to Beijing scholars who recently published a book on the voyages of the great oriental navigators, it was in...
STORIES
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Let's pick up a passage we translated, taken from an amusing, ironic and by now unobtainable booklet by the Kenyan journalist and writer Binyavanga Wainaina, who unfortunately left us in May last year, who makes fun of the commonplaces of...
CLIMATE
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One of the most heartfelt, passionate, yet forceful and direct speeches at the Glasgow COP26 global environment conference came from a young Kenyan environmental lawyer and activist, Elizabeth Wathuti.
