It seems bajaji inspire similar love or hate reactions as daladalas (and marmite)… but at least one in Dar has given the downside some thought…
Archive for June, 2010
an apologetic bajaj
Posted in drawing, tagged bajaji, dar es salaam, sketches, transport on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
green oranges
Posted in drawing, tagged art, dar es salaam, sketches, tanzania on June 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Juice dribbles slowly down his chin as he grins at me. Otherwise motionless, he carefully sucks every last piece of the fruit without breaking his smiling gaze. Sparkly eyes above a sun faded yellow football shirt. The dark ‘Fly Emirates’ slogan yells silently from his chest. Casting the skin aside he finally turns and rearranges [...]
Normalhaueser
Posted in drawing, tagged dar es salaam, high court, sketches, sustainable cities on June 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Built between 1891 and 1893 and originally called the ‘Normalhaueser’ this elegant building currently houses the commercial High Court. (Info from ‘A Catalogue of the Protected Buildings in Dar es Salaam’ prepared by Sustainable Cities: PLUS Network Africa Program.)
Hey Mr.Mfisadi Man
Posted in writing, tagged art, corruption, dar es salaam, hafiz juma, sketches on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What tragedy alights the flame of pittance in the beggar’s heart? Is it the unnerving hole-ridden road to prosperity? Or merely the worn-ragged story of possibility? Indeed, if hollow promises made heavy debts then the rich would beg on their knees. Sadly only the sorry live with sorrow, craving and raving about the unlikely prospects [...]
the invasion
Posted in writing, tagged art, dar es salaam, msasani, sketches, tanzania on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This morning, I woke to find an American flag hoisted above the fisher camp on Msasani bay. Sometime during the night the stars and stripes were erected and now proclaim that the corrugated iron sheets, the plastic bottles, the sun-bleached washing hanging on a line, The graffiti saying mysteriously - Naz - are all somehow Yankee property. [...]
