Tag: Africa
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Why Write
Featured Image – Upsplash.com I once asked a colleague how his book sales were going. His response to my question was, ‘Nothing of any significance.’ As the books he had published up to that point were autobiographical, I asked, ‘Do you think the genre is a winner in the marketplace?’ He replied sharply, ‘I don’t…
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If a Diamond Could Make a Sound
“I was awakened by the chirping of a bird outside the window. I never had heard such a sound before. My eyes were still closed, I saw the image of a precious diamond. Yes, if a diamond could make a sound, this is what it would be like.” Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now…
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Serengeti in Africa….
As something different this week, I am posting the work of two of the WhyWrte? course participants – This is Jingaling’s contribution – enjoy: Ecosystems anywhere, are worth going to. Why? You may ask yourself. Let me tell you about my experience. Being confined to a routine of work and home, a visit to the…
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Mission Malawi – Chapter 23
September 1996 We now find ourselves preparing to go back to Joburg to see what the Lord will have for us. In the natural, we have nothing to go back to. No place to live, no work and once we arrive back in Johannesburg, we will have no money. Well, one thing we have learnt…
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Mission Malawi – Chapter Twenty-Two
END IN SIGHT?……….. Since February, life has been hectic with the usual spate of attempted robberies, but by the Lords grace we haven’t lost much. It’s very sad to witness the amount of thieving especially from those who come to stay with us saying that they want to be taught the gospel. I guess times…
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Land Grabbing
What is Land Grabbing?
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Theodore Dingelberry
Hello to all you wonderful people out there in the big wide world. My name is Theodore Dingelberry and I am a travelling companion to my very close friend Antoinette. Can you believe it? Here I am on my little red rubber dingy (especially made for me – I might just add) in a swimming…
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Long Walk To Freedom
The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela “The Autobiography succeeds because the vicissitudes Mandela has gone through, in the course of his life, are so dramatic that the reader cannot help responding to them as if to a fairy tale or moral fable of some kind. No hero of legend ever went through such…
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