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Africa
Africa is perhaps the most disconcerting place in the world. A continent of many faces to which you travel to the past tries to put face, to tell your story.
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Himba: dreams sand hairstyles
Life there goes slowly. Morning, women make up their bodies and hair with a mixture of mud, natural dyes and aromatic herbs. A master class in eroticism
Africa on the move
Africa with which I have stayed is a woman that crosses the continent to open land or along roads and sidewalks, if any,. Always with a pack-and the baby if it has- to the back or on the head. Always alone. Always silent. The millennial silence of hunger and death.
Tierra de Brujas, Mary Ferreira
There are times Earth Bruges in reaching smell everything and you have to separate some pages, breathe and do an exercise of memory is to remind humans. I read a few books on Africa and, course, I have never faced such a work. Perhaps because none of the authors I have read I could tell in the first person what tells Maria. She did not run away from Makuyu, as we would almost all, She stood there hating and loving the land
The African Macondo: Javier painful victory Brandoli
Habla Javier de su experiencia africana como "una maravillosa derrota" and I rather think it is a painful victory, that of a guy who loved so intensely Africa ended aching Africa. And we with him.
The dead in silence
She was orphaned with seven years; it was passed from hand to hand of his relatives; those same relatives enslaved her and tried to prostitute; suffered beatings and hunger; ran away from his last house, third, from an aunt; started living on a bridge under a plastic tarp with other children; se drogaba ...
Accommodation most charming southeastern Africa
One goes through dozens of hotels where you sleep and leave a piece of your time. Most are used and march, even very good. It is not a question of quantity or quality, It is magic that brings you back to places.
Around the World 3 minutes
They return as lightning images from those days, snippets of Adventure, landscapes of the world. I try to build the wall of sensations, but it is impossible to order the chaos of a two-year journey, because the heart is not made to hold so many emotions.
Africa: in the last things
My brother, a great guy who sees life with some clarity by removing decorations, He once told me something that I never forgot the first time I left here: "Africa was your dream, was the legitimate. For all those who do not dare keep your dream ". And I listened to him, although sometimes it cost a little, and i dreamed.
A biopsy in Mozambique
I submitted two weeks before the consultation and she had forgotten to tell me that day did not come Dr.. Since then we have made a certain friendship that was forged with a smile. "I guess tomorrow will arrive alive", I told him to settle his confusion.
The best sunset I saw in Africa
It was a new hotel, strainer, the 15 the fourth euros, I had a restaurant with big bows on chairs and shiny boxes on the parking. But, We soon discovered that our room smelled of sewage. Clean hole in the floor which was the toilet gave off an odor that filled the small room, almost giving arcades.
Eastbound, rumba to about
One November afternoon my friend Victor Hugo showed up at my house and told me about Maputo map. I said exactly: "In my house Azores years I have hung a map in which I pointed out some routes I wanted to do for the world. It is time to make the first.
Madrid to Maputo, drive
From February to April. and 4x4. A route with which to pay off an old debt. A business trip and a trip of friends a few years ago dreamed of making the trip exactly propose to do now. They dream dreams and then, if you can, met.
Would you like to travel with us to South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi?
Three weeks of travel by 4x4 to the lesser known South African. National Parks, pristine beaches, tropical islands and history, large cities, navigate a lake, take a train African, across a large canyon, dive ... A journey of a living author for Africa at its best.
Today should be in Central African Republic
Excuse this time not describe anything. Who wants to read it ...
Ruta VAP (VIII): sleep in the "worst" hotel in the world
Have water?, asked. “No, no water, "he said quietly as the two we lay on a plastic couch office whose ceiling had a crack that threatened to collapse on our heads.
How to Write in Africa?
Three and half years later retrieve text that was the beginning of the blog that writes Javier Brandoli since then in Africa. What do you think about these words? Are there topics also of Africans in how they look to Westerners? We VaP. open this debate on how to understand and explain this continent.
The story of the soldier raped the girls was missing a photo
I had nothing interesting story of how they were abducted, raped and turned into soldiers with only 11 years. Their lives make you blanch. As we have, what have ... But people do not read and this is a story of words, theirs, which still lacks a striking photo.
Tazara: on-board copper
The convoy stops are eternal and give us time to tour wagons. The next to ours is like a refugee camp, people cooking in the ground, a pair of canvas stretched under which a child a few months slumbers between the tremendous din of his mother talking loudly and radios with music blaring.
The delirious history of Italian tenor and opera in Africa
Le flanking three types, three suazilandeses, three major opera promoters had no room to sleep, had no major concert program, pianist had not, and musicians, or at least 24 appointment times had sold a single entry. They looked at him and he them as if all this were to fall from the sky in this luxurious hotel hall.
Zambia: the crazed attempt to conquer Mars
They were euphoric times of Independence, 1964, where all dreamed Africa, with a freedom that would take up the same space. Article, signed by scientist Edward Makuka Nkoloso, specifies the details of an operation that would lead to the red planet to a spaceman, two cats and a missionary in a maximum period of seven years. All that crazy story has now captured in a book and a photo exhibition, internationally awarded and that is going around the world, Spanish photojournalist Cristina de Middel
Any street Africa
They were two minutes, nothing special, routine sequence and in that corner of the world passed the reality of make-up before our eyes. There is something hypnotic sway of people, the bustle with which Africa desnorta, aimlessly, without further horizons than a president less corrupt than the previous, a rainy season more lenient
The life of a nun in Africa: the courage of Carmen
“Renamo, Renamo, Where is the blood of your brother Frelimo?”, told, or vice versa, paraphrasing the story of Cain and Abel. Everyone looked, silent, and some began to mourn. Wastes were. Who is without sin, Who did not kill, cast the first stone? Returned to sink in, to llorar ", recalls.
Routes in Africa 2013: map, drive and adventure
Johannesburg, across all Mozambique, to Malawi; Vilanculos to Cape Town through Zimbabwe, Botswana and Nambia; Angola to the mouth of the Zambezi in Mozambique; Joburg to Kruger Vialnculos and crossing the Limpopo ... A whole menu ahead in travel 2013. !What advantage!
