Tag Archive for 'africa'

The ‘beautiful’ game 19 Comments

There is a saying that football (soccer) is the beautiful game in the world. But after watching the extreme violence and brutality of football fans in the movie “The Football Factory,” I was left to wonder if that saying was an irony.
This movie unfolds the dark world of British Hooligan culture thats replete with booze, [...]

Africa Still Dark! 29 Comments

This is the image of earth at night, via Google’s Earth’s Earth light. You can take a closer look at the whole world here.
Africa is very dark. No lights if you take a look at this image. Europe, and US are very bright. Japan is the brightest. India and east China [...]

What is Bernos? 14 Comments

The name Bernos comes from the Arabic word burnous/burnoose for one-pieced cloak like clothing worn my Arabs. The Arabs, who migrated to northern Africa and the Berbers take on this, was to make one of wool, a lot warmer than the Middle Eastern version. Burnous is worn throughout Northwestern Africa especially in Burkina Faso; its [...]

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Selam Hizb'och Welcome to Wondu's corner. From today on, you will be basking in the glory that is Wondinet Haile and my inner workings. You will read about my highs, my lows, my funnies and my gloomies, my observations of the life that revolves around me. I am in prison ' a [...]