Carbonara with Nata: a book to doubt
You fall from a womb and a good part of your life has already been decided
javier Brandoli
Javier Brandoli lives in Africa and lives Africa. He is one of the travel founders to the past a universal journalist, A STORIES SEARCH.
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A until never pronounced until later
El difícil "arte" of the farewell
Namibia, ten images
Sometimes it is better to let the images speak. After nearly five years of life and travels in Africa, a photographic summary of the country to another harsh reality, the progress and the immense beauty of this continent. My eyes and my camera sits today in beautiful Namibia.
Another umbilical cord around the globe
How can you not have fun in a country that Disney invented a children's film that deals with death? How not want to decipher a country with unpronounceable volcanoes are lovers? How not a surprise that pays street musicians to brighten their spicy foods because they like people mourn and laugh at the same time? How can we not admire a place that when you see her insides shaking more hands than rubble?
The suicides of the rarámuri
The wave of suicides of this native town, forgotten like so many in this Mexico in a hurry to get to the present, had a first voice of alarm early in 2012. Then, el Frente Organizado de Campesinos Indígenas denunció que "las mujeres indígenas cuando llevan cuatro o cinco días sin poder darle de comer a sus hijos se ponen tristes; and his sadness is so great that even 10 from December to 2011 fifty men and women, thinking that they don't have to give their children, they threw themselves into the ravine ".
The battle narco in the Golden Triangle
Do you feel that every day can kill you? "I care for will not happen, but it will always be probable ", Eden responds Leopoldo Molina, mayor of Guadalupe y Calvo, municipality in the Sierra de Chihuahua ....
African Macondo presentation in Madrid and Barcelona
[st] A book needs to be blessed, digest and be provided. For those who want to attend such a significant event, the…
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 story of Las Vegas (In)
An oriental American fifties was my opponent. Beside me, a fat guy with a cap and two hands with ten fingers six hundred grams each would witness. I changed 100 U.S. dollars. She began to letters. Everything went very fast. The fat guy on my side asked for a beer. I ordered two napkins and water to wipe one coffee stain. He looked at me wistfully, like my coffee disturb his beer. I did. I was ashamed.
Dante: the book which lasted thirteen years
Dante was not a birth, were one hundred. My first novel thirteen years hard in and out in a drawer or opening and closing of a computer that many times was nothing more than an old forgotten file. Dante times are explained in the illustrative example that the first draft is crafted, with pen and cuartillas, then I still had confidence in understanding what was able to draw with fingers.
Corresponsal en México
Go here for this measure contract, not to jump to conclusions, trying to count the important things first and the least important things too, after. Of not telling me and yes telling others. Go this desire as a whole to hold on to when the egos and doubts come ...
Ethiopia, ten images
North shows its history with the high forehead, knowing that their kings were great and that his story is beautiful. The south is primtivo, their ancestral tribes are, frozen in time. The people of Ethiopia, the three times I was there, I found girls, rogue, generous, educated and too much weight in their eyes. There was a certain sadness, a field alive and quiet and a free cities.
Kenya, ten images
A coastline of white sand and blue sea, a decrepit train and wonderful sailing time, some parks where the senses never rest, a cosmopolitan capital, sulfur lake water, some tribes of the Pleistocene, some crop fields where everything grows, a painful urban poverty and cheerful people and capable. Kenya could be the country that best sums Africa.
Tanzania, ten images
It is the cathedral of African wildlife. Its parks are majestic, probably in absolute terms, em landscapes and animals, the best in the c0ntinente. His reputation is deserved, It is charged in howls of hyenas and mud footsteps of eternal herds of ungulates. The Great Migration is the natural spectacle more imposing than ever beheld.
Zambia, ten images
In the parks of Zambia is heard and contemplated the lions in their hunting and nap routines. Animals seem to own everything, of a nature that borders on perfeccción. Kenya and Tanzania are perhaps most spectacular and filled with wildlife parks, but Zambia did my favorite safaris, especially in the fabulous Lower Zambezi and South Luangwa.
Zimbabwe, ten images
Zimbabwe is dust and stone. A country almost dead, a ghost that survives by inertia, for wild. His field is cruel, nice, messy. Zimbabwe is the Africa of yesterday. Its people are cultured and friendly but in their faces you can sense the disenchantment of everything that they are not allowed to be.. Zimbabwe kills itself in its past without knowing if it will be born again.
Mozambique, ten images
Mozambique was my home for more than two and a half years. A country full of contrasts that wander between diluted or reborn. It can be the great jewel of South Africa if they decide to really bet on it. Mozambique must decide what it wants to be.
Botswana, ten images
Botswana parks are legendary for their nearly perfeccción. The Okavango is a flooded desert water that should not be missed. Nothing makes sense in that place. Nxai Pan one of the best kept secrets of this continent.
South Africa, ten images
[st] 1.- Sangomas, animism, sorcery. dos sangomas (healers) They sang and danced while preparing what was known as "African beer."…
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 walk in the garden
I decided to do. I left the comfort of the comfort zone and decided to try. I made a list of what you left behind: a job, a house, a family and wonderful friends, a television that understood, a shadow and a pout. Then, When evening reviewing, I added a car, my comforter, thousand tavernas and a cd. What do you expect me? I made another list after long sleepless nights filled with a "do not know".
Ruta VAP (IV): the island desolate and quiet
Mass is an evangelist. Several groups have come from nearby places. They make presentations and each group sings a song. We also. The best thing is the group that has come from Nampula, They are many and sing several songs with choreography. It is a vision that we still lacked in Mozambique.
Slowly
And in between everything and step, never on that route is the third time that had passed so many things in my environment. It was as if everything had answer because nothing was asked. And the sun stood with us and, thing to do everything so slow, we was always waiting.
Namibia: six still two nights dust clouds
In Namibia the distances are dust. They are calculated eye, or that they have at least they do the birds when they cross the long wooden troughs and salt with the fear of being wrong and reach a place. No time in Namibia, it's not possible, do not allow the dead days that have always come. And how do then? "There is no way, nothing is done so that nothing happens. So everything happens ", we answered eyes.
