After Trump’ surprise of how cocoa business in a global scale was working in countries like Ghana or Ivory Coast, Our extraterrestrial, the one decided to better understand the differences in between The West and Africa, the skeptical Trump, the one decided to see and listen in order to better comprehend, the one ready to […]
How to understand anybody if you do not even know them? Why do we start talking and digress, sometimes with passion and eagerness, about places and countries that we never have been in? Why do we blindly trust reports, articles, writings that do not give the real picture so, they just support their own angle […]
Every single day, I used to hear roosters before six morning. At 7 morning it was normally the time I woken up in Pokuase, a neighborhood located at the outskirts of Accra, Ghana. At that time, every single place I look around it was already moving, alive, full of energy going and coming. Children taken […]
When we went to the Sicogi 11 School to explain THE HUGGIN SESSIONS activity, the video recording and working together with students and teachers, the principal sent us to the inspection of education. It seemed us fair and coherent asking for permission to the inspection when it is about an extracurricular activity. That is the […]
Alleys that bring you to unknown places; children playing at their pace in every corner and square, drawing welcoming smiles as I am bumping into them; small attieké businesses ( see Baoulé experience), smoked and dry fish, tropical fruits like bananas, pineapples, papayas, at both sides of […]
Just by sticking out your nose in Africa, just by glimpsing yourself, just by allowing that it invades you, whispers you, tucks you in, you will realize that all the prejudices you had before about Africa (if you had any), are falling apart, collapsing. As we were leaving Abidjan, noise, pollution, aggravate contamination produced by […]
When I raised my eyes, I found out myself together with more than 1200 students. Never before until now, AFRICAHUGS had gathered so many people, so many human beings, each one with their dream, with their illusion, with their energy. We are more than 2000 students already, with their teachers, in different schools who joined […]
In few days I will turn three. I live in Paynesville, Monrovia, Liberia. My father and mother are looking for a good private school for me nearby where we live. I am excited because in very short time, I going to meet new friends, I will play with them, I will learn, meet a new […]
As the days are passing by, as the weeks are finishing, as the months are falling down, Africa keeps captivating my attention, my respect, my deference, my total comprehension of its space and time. Even though, everything underneath that, sometimes implying a disturbed relationship that it is difficult for westerners to understand but, if we […]
While many are looking desperately for modernity and development, few are drawing patterns that can reach adverse effects for the people. In the majority of countries I have been in West Africa, uncertain modernity keeps benefiting abruptly the same as always. Guinea Conakry, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Three countries. Three similar geographical realities. Three environmental […]
We were sharing together with them for a week Learning together living together We gathered with the teachers thinking about the potential natural resources in Sierra Leone and who is the one most benefiting from them. We truly believe that, if we unify under a massive, enormous hug, full of anger, outrage, annoyance. But also […]
« Let’s fireflies keep giving light to the world » AFRICAHUGS Have you ever listened fireflies? Did you know that in Sierra Leone, in a little village surrounded by magnificent nature called Perie Bo, fireflies give off magical delightful light? Wherever you are, if by chance you have the opportunity to see and talk to fireflies, ask […]
Did you know that in Conakry I had the chance to hold a row diamond worth 15.000 Euros or other ones with a potential value worth more than 40.000 Euros? The Fourth of August, 2016, AFRICAHUGS left Bissau. After 3 long days journey through deep rainy tropical forest and difficult muddy roads for the « taxi […]
I have always thought that in order to understand a culture, we have to live it, to get into its skin, into its traditions, rituals, private and public areas and times. Since we started walking this small but ambitious project the 23rd May 2016, AFRICAHUGS has been living only with locals. From Gambia until now, […]
