Tag: culture
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MARRAKesH
”For you my friend, I will give you for cheap price”. The most famously used phrase we encountered during our visit, spoken in their unique Moroccan Arabic dialect. Five days was all we needed to explore one of the chief central cities of Morocco. Lights off, face down, music on. That was the mood in…
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Lets Find out!!!
I recall waking up in the middle of the night to use the toilet , and I went “Oh, I think I got it now”. ‘WHAT DO YOU KNOW?’ popped into my mind as the THEME for this year’s Black History Month. It took me a while to think of a theme, so I thought…
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Lisbon – part 1
Colourful, Homely, Cheap, History, Art, Hills, Bridge, Friendly, Memorable, Hostel and Fun. A list of adjectives and nouns that comes to mind whenever I think of Lisbon. Fun facts : My home town Sierra Leone was discovered by a Portuguese explorer – Pedro de Sintra in 1462. Hence, one could say it was inevitable to…
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A Language of Togetherness
A year ago, I went back home – Sierra Leone. A trip of a lifetime. I wanted to reconnect and reminisce with that of my upbringing and reflect on the journey of transformation so far. What re-ignites these reconnections are the moments of laughter and fun, occasionally some bruises too. As for many boys/men growing…
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The Era of Metamorphosis.
Years back, I had the pleasure of witnessing my little sis and Little bro dressing up for their first day in secondary school and straightaway..it gave me a feeling of Déjà vu. We all know that feeling – witnessing your siblings or kids growing up so fast. Where did time go?. The feeling of adrenaline…
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Florence – Italy
Two things that comes to mind when someone mentions the city of Florence : Leonardo Da vinci & The Medici family. Well for me anyway. That’s probably because I watched the TV series _ ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ for like 3 times, obsessively. A show that digs into the history of its people, rulers and at…
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A Walk To Gloucester & Cirencester
South west of England is a county called Gloucestershire. A county that houses other towns within it circumference known for it medieval history and Forest of dean (which we would get into on ‘Nature’ another time) . Two of which I visited were Gloucester and Cirencester. Lets start with Gloucester. At first I didn’t know…
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Lungi to Freetown!
Distinguished by the North Atlantic ocean lies Lungi and Freetown. Yes Free-town! The Motherland, the land of the free and the capital to Sierra Leone. Some may know it by the country of ‘Blood Diamonds’, others as ‘Mama Salone’. My first visit in 8 years was indeed a memorable one. But first, to get to…
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