[MONTRÉAL] Today, I bought my airline ticket, leaving me with two weeks, two days, 22 hours and two minutes before departure time. Actually, the accurate time is constantly changing in the Countdown columnn to the right, which will benchmark various phases of the trip. Arrivals, departures, events. Something to string you along.
Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
A view of Juba
[MONTRÉAL] Yesterday, I found an interesting video by Jason Brooks. He produced it during a visit in Juba, in May 2007. The interview-based short film considers the effect the massive presence of international non governmental organizations (NGOs) has on the development of South Sudan: inflation, cultural differences, living conditions, priotiry development, etc. The population of [...]
A new tradition of peace
[MONTRÉAL] A half-empty pint of double-fermented rye beer sits on the shaky table beside Ruszard Kapuscinki’s book, The Shadow of the Sun, which is described in the New York Times as “a marvel of humane, sorrowful and lucid observation” of Africa. It is a great read by a Polish journalist who was intimately familiar with [...]
