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• Happy Kwanzaa from Move Trends!

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 441
  Its unlikely you will hear any of your neighbors shouting “Happy Kwanzaa!” this holiday season, but with an estimated 12 million people celebrating worldwide, it’s not for lack of participation. Created by Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration that starts on December 26th and ends with a day of ...
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• Celebrating Kwanzaa With Maya Angelou (VIDEO)

  
  ForWomenOnline — Authority: 145
  “If you make an observation, you have an obligation.” This is the piece of poetry that fuels me as an artist. It’s also what I told Dr. Maya Angelou, a living hero of mine, when I pitched my latest film project to her. “What’s your observation?” she asked. “That there’s a deeply important story that ...
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• Happy belated Christmas!

  
  :: louder than swahili — Authority: 131
  Im beginning to suspect that Tanzania has signed a UN convention on what Christmas songs to play in public places and to what extent. At least it appears that the Tanzanian shopkeepers and restaurant owners in Dar es Salaam take Christmas music rather serious. Unfortunately, they all have the same CD. Im not ...
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• How to deal with public transport breakdowns in Tanzania?

  
  :: louder than swahili — Authority: 131
  Experience and solid advice from a friend here.  
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• Did You Know? Countdown to Kwanzaa 2009 (12/24)

  
  Holiday Rap - Holidays on the Net Holiday Blog — Authority: 146
  Did You Know? Facts, Figures & Folklore about Kwanzaa Dec 24 : 02 days till Kwanzaa Did you know that the name Kwanzaa comes from a Swahili phrase “ matunda ya kwanza ,” meaning “ first fruits of the harvest “? During the holiday of Kwanzaa, many people exchange greetings in Swahili. A ...
  3 days ago

• No electricity on Zanzibar for the next month. Kweli!

  
  :: louder than swahili — Authority: 131
  This is the main story of December in Tanzania: Zanzibar to celebrate Xmas in darkness. But hey, there was power during the Ramadhan . And, as you know, you cant have it all. It is always one or the other. And there must be reasons for the waswahili to say eh, eh... and the wazungu to say T.I.A . ...
  3 days ago

• Daima Tutakukumbuka: Help me translate!

  
  :: louder than swahili — Authority: 131
  Dear watanzania, I need help to translate the title of the Michael Jackson kanga here . The text says: Daima Tutakukumbuka - and I cannot make a precise translation of this kanga writing, so please help! The kanga will, along with a few Obama kangas, be part of an upcoming exhibition at the Troopen Museum in ...
  1 week ago

• Barbados Free Press in Swahili… Really! “Plastiki na Uchafuzi wa Mazingira”

  
  Barbados Free Press — Authority: 480
  Sometimes the world is very large, and sometimes it’s very small. Today, it’s tiny because we’ve been getting a gazillion hits (well, ok, approaching a hundred so far) from Africa. How did that happen? Easy… Global Voices featured one of our articles in its Swahili edition . That’s kind of special, ...
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• Swahili Blonde’s “Elixor Fixor” is out on iTunes

  
  John Frusciante unofficial website - Invisible Movement — Authority: 122
  Swahili Blondes first single, Elixor Fixor is out on iTunes as of yesterday - it was released a day earlier. You can click here to acquire it if theres an iTunes store available for your country. Otherwise, give it a spin on the Myspace page. Johns guitar sounds mighty on this, so if youre down [...] This is the ...
  1 week ago

• weekend randoms: swahili / kid pang + great ancestors (form function)

  
  http://cowsarejustfood.wordpress.com — Authority: 126
  thought i’d give this automatic writing thing a go. let my subconscious do the talking for a change. so bunged this shit on, fixed m’self into a nice little nonnarcotic trance (and whisky) and this is the garbage that came out: there’s lizards in the fucking pavement cracks. what the christ does that even mean? ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kenya-Daddy V

  
  Kilimanjaro Entertainment — Authority: 114
  Mahooks by fast-rising Kenyan artist Daddy V aka The African Entertainer is our pick for Kenyan video of the week.
  2 weeks ago

• New artwork for Swahili Blonde’s “Elixor Fixor”

  
  John Frusciante unofficial website - Invisible Movement — Authority: 122
  Swahili Blonde have changed their artwork for Elixor Fixor to an illustration featuring giraffes. If your favourite wild animal is giraffe, youre either me, my mom or someone else who just might go "awww" at this. Click here for the blog entry on their Myspace and the images in their full size. Remember to [...] ...
  2 weeks ago

• Useful words in Kiswahili: mkali - the bitch

  
  :: louder than swahili — Authority: 131
  One of my other favourite words in Kiswahili is kali Depending on the context - whether we are talking animals, food, weather or women - in English kali can mean anything from  { violent }; { wild }; { bitter };   { vehement }; { ferocious }; { fierce }; { mean }; { strict }; { ...
  3 weeks ago

• Congo: Doctors without Borders tell peoples stories through web video

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 704
  Condition Critical is a website showcasing the stories of victims of the violence in Eastern Congo coordinated and launched by Doctors without Borders/Medecins sans Frontiers (MSF). Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing asked Pete Masters of MSF for some more information on the project and then posted his reply: Condition: ...
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• NASHIL PICHEN & PETER TSOTSI, Kondakta (Make The Bus Go Fast), 1962

  
  Berlin Beatet Bestes — Authority: 120
  Recorded on the beautiful Equator label from Nairobi, Kenia. I have another Equator 45 , Malaika by Fadhili William & the Black Shadows from 1963, but I suppose that is a little too famous so I didn´t record it. I wish I could listen to one of the Twist -related 45´s ( Bush Baby Twist, Bachelor Boy Twist, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dresscode: kikoi, konyagi and malapa. Its all you need.

  
  :: louder than swahili — Authority: 131
  The upcoming festivious season is an event I and some friends have spent many hours debating.   Where others leave Bongo for Christmas and New Year, we stay. The IST is closed (and no kids have to be driven to school in a landcruiser), which means lovely less traffic, fewer wazungu hanging out in Dar, and less ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another deadline met & another Swahili card!

  
  Encouraging Impressions — Authority: 118
  Yesterday a guest speaker in our church asked those who worked to stand up. I have been working 60 hour weeks with my card & craft store stuff, but the issue being addressed was the influence we are for Christ on our co-workers, which obviously I dont have, so I didnt stand up, lol! But wow, has it been crazy! In ...
  3 weeks ago

• Selfportrait

  
  :: louder than swahili — Authority: 131
  [IMG: http://pernille.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834522fa869e20120a6eebaba970b-800wi]
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• youll never see the end of the road by your travelling with me...

  
  :: louder than swahili — Authority: 131
  Dusty scenery driving back from the Kim Beach to Kigamboni late yesterday afternoon.
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• The life of an mzungu (a not so typical one)

  
  :: louder than swahili — Authority: 131
  The life of a mzungu in Dar es Salaam is a challeging one: What moustache and what sun glasses to wear today? To put the fan on 3 or 4 or 5? So many kali cigarettes to be smoken. This mzungu is not a classical one, I can assure that, this one even has one thing in common with Bi Kidudde .
  3 weeks ago

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