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Slavery today
I recently came across several articles on BBC which show that slavery is still an issue today, in more than one country. Slavery is not just something out of our history books but still present today....
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Bibel translation in Africa * Bibelübersetzung in Afrika
I love maps. I was always the one on our survey team to handle the maps and do the map questions during the interviews. So it should not surprise you that I like the map which I found through another...
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Ancestor Worship?
It made me smile when Ben Byerly wrote a tongue-in-cheek blog entry about ancestor worship in England. I thought it was great to help us see our own culture from a different perspective. I liked it...
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It’s all relative * Alles ist relativ
My last post is more than a week ago and I am trying since yesterday morning to produce a new post. I especially wanted to post one today because it is Tuesday and Tuesdays are Coffeegirl Blog Roll...
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Aid to Africa: What An African Woman Thinks
One of the blogs I read “What An African Woman Thinks” has an interesting summary of several articles about the debate Aid to Africa: On AppAfrica, Jonathan Gosier used a well-known tale to make a...
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Moskito nets
Today in one month is World Malaria Day. It was established in 2007 by the WHO and took place for the first time in 2008. So this is the second time it takes place. Several organizations have started...
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Bamako (movie)
Did you hear about this film that is named after Mali’s capital Bamako and takes place in a court yard of this city? Well, I had heard about it and now I finally managed to see it, thanks to...
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Scenery, machinery or people?
In Anthropology we learned about the “scenery, machinery, people” approach of most Westerners: we often divide people in these three groups and treat them accordingly. - The “scenery people” are for...
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