under the baobab tree

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moving windmills

I have just seen a short film called Moving Windmills and wanted to share it with you. It is an extremely inspirational story of a young Malawian William Kamkwmamba, who was forced to drop out of school for lack of money. But he did not discourage: when he saw a picture of a windmill in a textbook he decided to build one to power his family’s home. The film is now distributed online both via The Pangea Day Event, which has a big selection of other interesting films available too, and via William Kamkwamba’s Malawi Windmill Blog.

Moving Windmills at the Pangea Day Event web site
William Kamkwamba’s Malawi Windmill Blog

gnawa diffusion

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If you are in Brussels on the 23rd of June make sure you don’t miss the free concert by the Algerian group Gnawa Diffusion.

Venue: Place Saint-Jean Babtiste, Molenbeek. In case you have never heard of them before, click here for a good summary by a fellow blogger Radu and listen to a sample of their music.

TassourT is another blog in which you can listen to a nice selection of gnawa – enjoy!

alex – road to freedom

The journey of hope towards freedom for Alex Rod B. from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The link to Alex’s blog is here