Cameron's Mozambican Kiva Fellowship – The Story
Posted in Travel, mozambique on Aug 11th, 2009
When asked “what do you want to be when you grow up?” as a wee little 1st grader a lot of thoughts came to my mind. I wanted to be like Christopher Columbus or Vasco da Gama, sail on ships, explore new lands and drink beer with peg legged salts (not slaughter the natives). It [...]
Posted in Travel on Aug 3rd, 2009
So apparently Winston Churchill really liked Uganda. While defiling a Ugandan bathroom I noticed a Churchill quote on the wall, “A lot of people are asking me about my journey to Africa, it can be summed up in three words ‘concentrate on Uganda’”. Pretty typical imperialist quote from a pretentious Englishman.
Anyway, while I don’t much [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2009
Today I went to Maputo to eat pizza! Well, maybe that oversimplifies my motives for taking a pernicious ride on an overfilled minibus into the capital, but diversifying my normal diet of rice, bread, beer and an occasional serving of chicken certainly was close to the top of my list of things to do. [...]
Posted in General, Technology on Jul 16th, 2009
This is what happens when you insert a co-workers flash drive into your USB port in the Moz. My computer literally made an alarm sound. It was pretty fun, I laughed. Glad I’ve got some mighty fine anti-virals for my computer.
Posted in Microfinance, mozambique on Jul 15th, 2009
Warming the moto up in the parking lot. I only fell twice today (just kidding mom).
Children of the motoway. They always get pretty excited when the moto arrives.
Posted in Agriculture, mozambique on Jul 15th, 2009
After writing a blog post last week about the need for Mozambicans to produce agricultural products locally in order to lessen their dependence on South African agriculture, bring down food prices and eat fresh food I found a local hero. Yesterday I spent the better part of an hour on Bernardo Armando’s agricultural plot. Bernardo [...]
Posted in Maputo, Uncategorized, mozambique on Jul 15th, 2009
Here are a couple shots I took yesterday that in my opinion are quintessentially Maputan. Most construction in Maputo dates back to the Portuguese days and it shows. Facobol is by far my favorite. I have a romantic view that the Facobol billboard is some sort of soccer ad from the 70s that has regally [...]
Posted in General on Jul 12th, 2009
“Africa doesn’t need strongmen, it needs strong institutions”
Article here
Enjoy!
Posted in General on Jul 10th, 2009
Apparently being a good blogger involves showing fellow folk in the blogpshere some love. If you haven’t noticed, in the side bar to the right I have a few links under “friends” that link to a couple of my favorite sites and more importantly to few of my friends’ blogs.
You’ll find both of Scotty Hartley’s [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Microfinance, Uncategorized, mozambique on Jul 9th, 2009
The name of a diddy I just dropped on the Kiva Fellows blog. Musings on farmers markets, community tractors, indexed weather insurance and more.
Check it out
