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Water 1 | Africa: It's not what you think

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Posted by Catherine Rodd. June 27, 2014. Water, or rather the lack of it, is a significant problem in most of sub-Saharan Africa. Every morning, we load up our 4×4’s with cases of bottles and hope we’ve counted accurately so it lasts the day. For every person we add during our trip, we need to subtract their ration from our stores. In the dry months, fights over water regularly break out between farmers and pastoralists (nomadic herders) over water. Sometimes people are killed. June 27, 2014 at 7:57 pm.

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Food 2 | Africa: It's not what you think

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Posted by Catherine Rodd. July 9, 2014. Lunch at a community gathering in Luanda, Angola. We rarely eat in restaurants as they are few and far between. Instead, we eat in people’s homes. And it’s always a treat to meet families and share a meal. If the harvest is good, there is squash, yam, cassava, African potatoes eggplants, garlic, and carrots. Condiments don’t figure highly except for the local hot sauce, which each place claims is the best and only true hot sauce. But it’s a hard sell in the rural a...

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About | Africa: It's not what you think

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I’m a writer, producer and traveller. I am writing this blog for a course but also to take you to places that few people get to visit. I’m hoping this blog will offer a positive picture of change and hope as well a highlighting the exceptional work of African NGO’s in their context. Linkedin: https:/ www.linkedin.com/pub/catherine-rodd/b/bab/a6b. Cape of Good Hope 2013. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).

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Cloth | Africa: It's not what you think

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Posted by Catherine Rodd. July 10, 2014. Women waiting for a ride in Angola, most women prefer the traditional cloth because of its versatility. Traditionally men wove and women spun. Today the cloth is made in factories, both men and women create the batik and tie dye. W atch this You Tube video. One thought on “ Cloth. July 11, 2014 at 8:01 pm. That’s really interesting to learn the significance of the cloth in different tribes. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Project Light to Life.

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Walking | Africa: It's not what you think

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Posted by Catherine Rodd. July 11, 2014. Children and their bike on their way home from school in Zambia. When an African colleague says, it’s only a short walk”, I prepare for a trek. A short walk is anything up to five miles, “a bit far” is over five miles and “it is too far for us to walk today” is more than ten miles. Carrying camera gear along narrow cow paths and uphill in the heat is tough, but then I come upon w. En carrying 20 litres of water. I know it’s all true. And as we hurtle over the ...

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Royalty | Africa: It's not what you think

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Posted by Catherine Rodd. July 7, 2014. Our audience with the late King Ekuikui IV in Bailundo, Angola. I’ve met a Queen in Mozambique, a King in Angola, three chiefs in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Traditional leadership is still alive. The 35th king of a kingdom that began in the 15th century and has endured colonialism and civil war. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email.

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Teachers | Africa: It's not what you think

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Posted by Catherine Rodd. July 5, 2014. High school students in Bailundo, Angola listening to their teacher. A new school is being planned. We’re standing in a crowded class room in central Angola. The wall is pock-marked with bullet marks, much of the school’s exterior crumbled from repeated rocket attacks during three decades of civil war. Children carry their own chairs to school in Lobito, Angola. 2 thoughts on “ Teachers. July 9, 2014 at 11:31 pm. July 10, 2014 at 1:54 am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Food 1 | Africa: It's not what you think

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Posted by Catherine Rodd. July 8, 2014. Much of my travel is about food, or the lack of it in sub-Saharan Africa. Some areas are hit harder than others by drought, but there is no doubt that climate change is taking its large toll. On farmers and herders. Older people talk of predicable rains, the short rains in late spring months of November and December and the long rains in the fall months, April, May and June. Funded in part by the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. 4 thoughts on “ Food 1. Thanks Kat, it&#821...

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Cell phones change lives | Africa: It's not what you think

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Cell phones change lives. Posted by Catherine Rodd. July 2, 2014. In the time, I have travelled back and forth to Africa; I have watched the digital social media phenomenon take hold quickly. Since there were few land lines, the digital revolution didn’t face the same hurdles in getting people to switch and learn. People were anxious to use this new way of connecting. The big cell phone companies, like Vodafone. Store that sells talk time cards for cell phones in Angola. Companies are using social media ...