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“Many young people will go abroad, maybe travel to African countries; what would you advice people who wish to do good in places that aren’t really their own places?’”
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If you even think you have the solution, keep it to yourself and seek the counsel of people. You may just hear your solution in someone’s voice. If you go into communities and think you’re going to change them, you’ve already failed before stepping on a flight. Go into communities with an open mind. Learn from local people and never go in with an arrogance of ‘I know’, because you’ll be setting yourself up for failure. If you go as a doctor and think you know the solutions to malaria, ask people. They will give you few more solutions to add.
Don’t set yourself up for failure. People will read you, your talks and give you what they think you want to hear. Go, with an attitude of learning.
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The Long Death of the Ducor Hotel
Great photos by Glenna Gordon in Liberia’s once great Ducor Hotel.
Frank is the last guest at Monrovia’s Ducor Palace Hotel. A largely silent man who dresses like a mime and checked in “to be alone”. A security guard who knows him says he is disturbed, “maybe by the war but who knows?”
In a city still recovering from a debilitating civil war—on April 27, the International Court at the Hague convicted Liberia’s former president Charles Taylor of a host of war crimes—there are bigger things to worry about than one gentle squatter.
The Ducor’s three hundred rooms have been stripped bare and its last paying customer left in 1989. Frank’s laundry dances in the wind that blows off the Atlantic Ocean through the skeleton of the hotel and inland towards the slums of Chocolate City.
Daniel Howden reports on the demise of one of Africa’s greatest hotels for Roads and Kingdoms.
(Source: RoadsandKingdoms)
Glenna Gordon takes amazing photographs - love that first one.
CNN covering POSITIVE news in Liberia! #soproud! Oh yeah, and a ton of clothes from itsarchel.bigcartel.com =)
Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner and peace activist in Liberia, discusses unlocking the intelligence and potential of girls.
via isthisafrica
(Source: ted.com, via dynamicafrica)
