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Vengeful sick and the young man who swallowed his ear

I spent a few months of silence, debating between having and not having, trying to find how or why. Several times a day I found myself thinking, "This is outrageous, this I have to tell the tale. "Or" This is beautiful, I have to share this ".

byMaria Ferreira

24 September, 2014

Africa

Learning to die in Malawi

South Africa had to resuscitate, they did it, I'm alive. But I have never forgotten the people who were with me that day, I could have lived, perhaps, if I had health insurance that I had.

byContributors

3 September, 2014

Laughing at fear in Africa

Before he could realize, my dear friend crossed the precipice by way of the train. The steps agreed with the old wooden boards; one misstep and you fell into the river. And he was high. And I was afraid.

byMaria Ferreira

23 July, 2014

Ishak: "It's still spring, the revolution lives on

Topara chance made me George Ishak, political founder of Kifaya, movement in 2004 He paved the way for the Revolution. broke, somehow, the culture of fear of getting the right to demonstrate under the Emergency Law and the right to elect president.

byMaria Ferreira

5 June, 2014

Africa

Heroes of the Coptic Hospital

I would not save anyone because there is no one to save. Started an NGO wanting to be a hero and now just want to be happy, less so happy as people who wanted to help.

byContributors

23 April, 2014

No medicate the Leopard Man

When I was a kid and saw the bus shelters advertising plagued NGOs, I imagined something different. Something easier. More heroic. But working in Kenya means swallow the ego every day and assume you really do not know anything about anything.

byMaria Ferreira

25 July, 2013

Makuyu, "Land of witches"

There are two things boundless in Makuyu health center: death and madness. Both are treated from the horror, incomprehension and denial. The first meaning is found through various religions and madness is explained in that society through curses, evil eyes, divine punishment ...

byMaria Ferreira

17 July, 2013

"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10