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GHANA | Wednesday, 2 May 2007 | Views [1435] | Comments [2]
well, what could be more amazing than squatting in a momentarily abandoned guesthouse with a dozen african drummers and dancers on the coast of ghana? nothing, i tell you. nothing. i am here with them, and i can hear the ocean through my left ear and ... Read more >
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GHANA | Thursday, 19 Apr 2007 | Views [2814] | Comments [1]
you could spend eternity in the hollowed out entrails of a wooden unicorn, or sleep away forever in the back seat of a four by four fashioned out of mohogany. its funeral fashion, and its a ghanain obsession. death is the biggest party you'll ever have, ... Read more >
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GHANA | Monday, 9 Apr 2007 | Views [717]
here in ghana. he's being reborn every couple of feet in the form of forever church services, signs that proclaim his immortal presence and missionaries that perpetuate this preaching epidemic. all the businesses her reflect that: how about 'jesus is ... Read more >
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MALI | Friday, 23 Feb 2007 | Views [1054] | Comments [2]
she is bold: ears strung with gold her fetishes made from the bones of the old and on her head she holds the fabric of souls her slender neck sinking from the weight of full bowls four meals (her hips spin like wheels, i am told) and she heals ... Read more >
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BURKINA FASO | Friday, 23 Feb 2007 | Views [633] | Comments [2]
earth's limbs are heavy with the weight of almost ripe mangoes, birth dangling over the dusty desolate streets, i find dreams in my sleep. the sweet air of burkina deep in my mind. the morning drinks of syrup milk and an undefined sun: divine adoring ... Read more >
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MALI | Friday, 23 Feb 2007 | Views [791]
last night i slept in a village of trucks, buses constructed from a melange of tired taxi engines and the carcasses of retired train cars. everything is in the dirt, the bitter rinds of unfinished oranges, the bleating desperate goats, the fly covered ... Read more >
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SENEGAL | Monday, 29 Jan 2007 | Views [879] | Comments [1]
there is this idea here, in the wolof language, called taranga-the word for senegalese hospitality. they will smile so huge, so huge with sparkling teeth!! they will hold your hand and call you sister, and insist so joyfully that you come to their house ... Read more >
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SENEGAL | Thursday, 18 Jan 2007 | Views [748]
day 6: after three flat tires and a lot of hassle, i make it across the border to senegal. i am in dakar now, and it is visciously mocking me- i feel like an unwanted weed in the original garden of mother earth, my status sweetly and discretely revealed ... Read more >
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MOROCCO | Friday, 29 Dec 2006 | Views [929] | Comments [3]
music flows through the streets of this city like the lifeblood of god penetrating humanity. it is what the people here live for, singing in the streets with a passion that is impossible to misinterpret. it is a perpetual festival, a land where the sound ... Read more >
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MOROCCO | Saturday, 9 Dec 2006 | Views [760] | Comments [1]
it is only the second day and i already have a novel's worth of the extraordinary to retell. participating on this exhilerating stage of life-marrakech is a theatre of perpetual perfomance: everyone in their elvish hoods and elvish shoes, spinning dervish circles ... Read more >
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