Just back from Chogoria area for reports on community tourism, the coffee- and tea industry. Coffee dioes not bring enough income, farmers don’t want to change, or are not able to change their business. Now, locals are becoming share holders in a tourist lodge and getting the profit. More pictures …More
Comin’ up: more (audio-)postings. Among them: The meeting with one of the last relatives of Idi Ami, How the Kenyan Government is trying to give their people history and: Party time at the Roadblock. Thanks for coming (back) and for your warming emails. Meanwhile, please enjoy some of the pictures …More
Finally after a while of to Uganda again. Usual mode of transport: the Yellow Glory of Kenya (at least that what is used to be): the Akamba bus. Started the 13 hour trip more than one day ago in Antonio’s Bar: 24 hours open. That’s where I took the picture …More
All pictures were taken with mobile phone (c) 2006 Arjen Westra
Green, green, green banana’s everywhere. The sweet smell of matoke mixes with the smell of sweating locals coming aboard. I took the night boat from Bukoba in Tanzania to Mwanza. It’s a ten hour journey. The boat leaves Bukoba, one of the major economic cities in Tanzania around 21.30 at …More
Dear visitor, due to travelling and moving from one hosting service to the other, I have not been able to do any postings. From now on, you are welcome on this completely renewed Blog. It’s still heavily under construction, sorry for that inconvenience. Please also visit the links above. It …More
Back in Nairobi after a few week trip overland from Johannesburg, South Africa to Nairobi, Kenya.
Observations bring the dilemma’s and always the question: why does development not get through onto this continent and: should development get through here anyway?
The dualism in the answers on the question why? It’s people’s own …More
One of the things travelling overland from Johannesburg to Nairobi is the fact that people in most countries I travelled spend a lot of time waiting: waiting for electricity, to be connected to the water network, waiting for a better future, waiting for that one customer (like the people of …More
