“Dust in our eyes our own boots kicked up. Heartsick we nursed along the way we picked up. You may not see it when it’s sticking to your skin, but we’re better off for all that we let in.” — Emily Sailers of the Indigo Girls I’ve had a lot of dust (and smoke) in my eyes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
Week 21: Spring fever & dinner for 12
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged Africa, breakfast, Congo Restoration, schedule, Zimbabwe on March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
From Congo to Dallas, women helping women
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, congo, Congo Restoration, DRC, Half the Sky, rwanda, Women for Women International on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“We [Congolese] try hard to break the silence about all the rape, the sexual slavery, but the entire world remains in silence. Congolese blood is in the street, and no one says anything. It is so painful. You have no idea.” — my friend Gorethy Nabushosi, a Congolese attorney who fought for women’s rights in [...]
Week 17: Seven more days of deprivation
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged Africa, breakfast, bringing dinner back, Congo Restoration, dinner, family dinner, rock climbing, schedule, Whole Foods on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one’s spirits strong even when one’s body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.” — Nelson [...]
Country 11: Nigeria
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, women to women international on January 23, 2010 | 8 Comments »
“We were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren’t allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.” — Ben Okri (Nigerian poet and novelist) Like most Americans, I didn’t think much about Nigeria until [...]
Country 10: Chad
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, Chad, children, Darfur, Sudan on January 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Do not try to cook the goat’s young in the goat’s milk.” — Chadian proverb. Kind of disturbing, I know, but there aren’t an excess of Chadian proverbs. Sawyer did a report on Chad in the first grade. This is what he remembers: “They live in straw and manure huts. And there’s not very much [...]
Country 8: Morocco
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, Casablanca, Morocco on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Feed your guests, even if you are starving.” — Moroccan proverb I almost made it to Morocco once. I was on a six-month backpacking trip through Europe with a friend and it was high on our agenda as we planned the trip. But just a month into it, having been through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, [...]
Country 7: Democratic Republic of Congo
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, congo, Congo Restoration, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, genocide, gorillas, orphans, rwanda, women to women international on December 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“The teeth are smiling but is the heart?” — Congo proverb Since coming home from my first trip to Africa in September 2008, I have plotted to go back. My first trip was to Rwanda, site of the 1994 genocide where a million or so people were killed in a three-month period. My second trip, [...]
Country 6: Guinea
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, American Friends for Guinea, colony, coup, Guinea, ken watts, SOS Children's Villages on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“We prefer poverty in freedom to riches in chains.” — Sekou Toure, the first president of Guinea after the country’s independence from France (1958-1984) While Guinea’s leader (the guy who overthrew the government a year ago) recovers from a bullet to the head, the country makes news yet again for its political turmoil. As is [...]
Country 5: Botswana
Posted in Africa, tagged Africa, AIDS, Alexander McCall Smith, Botswana, cheetahs, Meg Medina, No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, orphans on December 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“Traditional Botswana men like ladies who are more traditionally shaped. You and I, Mma. We remind men of how things used to be in Botswana before these modern-shaped ladies started to get men all confused.” — Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life Forgive my tardiness with this week’s Africa lesson. I usually do [...]
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