I HAVE NO TRIBE, I'M SUDANESE: February 2007

Friday, February 23, 2007

Thanks for the opitmism!

Finally a movie that portrays Africa in a positive way or a movie that expresses optimism about the future of Africa

Its called "Africa Paradis" Its filmed in Benin and France and its in French.

synopsis:-
Europe, among them France, has become underdeveloped due to acute economic and political crisis while Africa has gone through very thriving development.As Olivier and Pauline, a French engineer and a French teacher, can no more decently live in their country, they decide to immigrate into the United States of Africa.Unfortunately they don’t manage to get an entry visa and therefore call on a smuggler. From that time on their life turns upside down and they face the grim reality of immigration : they experience the position of illegal immigrant, the difficulty to find a decent job and on top of that the political use of immigration.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Iran after the Iranian revolution

I have to write a research paper on the "youth culture in Iran" for one of my classes... so, I decided to do some reading and research and when I started reading about Iran after the Iranian revolution I WAS ABLE TO RELATE TO IT! seriously, Iran after the revolution is soo similar to Sudan after Nimeri imposed sharia law.
I mean mandatory veiling /segregated schools/islamicization(is it a word?) of everything....Can you see the similarities? Yes, this is what am talking about!

I will post more about it later:D!

A short history of a long war

I've just finished reading Darfur: a short history of a long war for Alex De waal and Julie Flint and I have to admit that I've never been so affected by a book . This book is absolutely unputdownable and it reveals all the dirty little secrets and history of Darfur.
Although, I consider this book a real eye-opener, I hated reading it because it made me see the whole conflict from a new point of view and solving the Darfur issue is not as simple as I thought it would be.

After reading this book, I decided to apply for an internship in "Justice Africa". Finally, I'm going to work with Alex De Waal! :)

Quotable Quotes

"The way to change other's minds is with affection, and not anger"
The Dalai Lama

"Suffering is everywhere.Dont ever think it isn't. So are Miracles. Dont ever think they aren't"
Harper Collins

"Age doesnt protect you from love, but love to some extent, protects you from age"
Anais Niin

"I with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my toughness or my courage, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman"
Anais Niin

"America is like my distant uncle who does not always remember my name but occasionally gives me pocket money " Chimaamanda Adichie

“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu"

"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it".
George Kimble

"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.”
Nelson Mandela

"The Pope has swept through Africa, where 5 million people are already infected with the AIDS virus, and which expects by the end of the century to have 10 million orphans whose parents have died of AIDS - and told them not to use condoms”'
Brenda Maddox

"The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa, the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York”
Frank Dane"

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anais Nin

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
Martin Luther King Jr."

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
Dom Helder Kamara

"Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
"Rene Dubos