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The Civilised Uncivilised
“The uncivilised has behaved in the highest grade civilised while the civilised thanked in the highest grade uncivilised. As he would be lost if we wouldn’t help him there will also be a time when our whole civilisation will cry for help out of problems it caused by itself.” Karl…
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The Place To Look Out From
Rolf’s Place is an old colonial building which previously had been a private residence and is nowadays a hotel. It is located some distance outside of Nairobi. It is a remnant from the colonial past of Kenya. It had been a German protectorate from 1885 till 1890 and a British…
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Masterpiece Of Obama Senior
Bomas of Kenya is a museum village in Langata, Nairobi, Kenya. Bomas interprets to homesteads and displays traditional villages belonging to the several Kenyan tribes. It is one of the largest auditoriums in Africa. Bomas of Kenya was established in October 1971 under the ingenuity of Barack Obama Senior. It…
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The Unknown Yet So Familiar
In the footsteps of Dr David Livingstone. “It all means something, and yet nothing to me. I can see there’s so much to learn, it′s all so close and yet so far. I see myself as people see me, oh, I just know there’s something bigger out there. I wanna…
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And The Wind Laughed
“And the wind laughed, and the wind laughed through the trees… Come with me I’m going back, I’m going back to East Africa.” (Phil Collins) The Giraffe Centre is a wildlife conservation facility located in Lang’ata near Nairobi, Kenya. It was established to protect the vulnerable Rothschild giraffe, that is…
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A Giant Leap On African Soil
Finally I would set foot on this fascinating continent. A small step for me, a giant leap for me as well. Africa welcomed me in the best way possible. For the second time I was flying by business class after getting an upgrade, but this time even with a window…
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The World In A Few Days
I got a sunburn because I walked under the hot desert sun in Dubai, I got wet because walked through rain and permanent humidity in Hong Kong, and I didn’t sleep one night. Raindrops kept falling on my head… First cold rain in Munich and Frankfurt, then warm rain in…
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Towards The Desert Sun
At places like Babylon and Dubai people tried to reach the sky, and still the desert sun remains high above. The Burj Khalifa, previously known as Burj Dubai, was built from 2004 till 2009 and opened in 2010. Some of the steel used in the building originated from the Palace…
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From Dreams To Mixed Reality
I came with dreams and left with a mixed reality. The United States are, to put it diplomatically, controversial. On the one side they were founded with values like democracy and freedom, on the other side those are not only questionable domestically but are being taken away from other countries…
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What Is Worth More
“’Is money so important for your people?’ [Winnetou] asked after the pause. ‘Yes, everything turns around money,’ I admitted. ‘Is it… why you joined the land-grabbers [railway construction]?’ he asked with long pauses as if every word had caused him pain. ‘In our world everybody says that happiness is about…
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The Sea-Wet Rock
Out there at the coast of southern China are a group of islands and a peninsula which British seafarers found suitable to colonialise when they arrived there in the 19th century. At that time a small fishermen’s village, it soon grew to a town, then a city, and since the…
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Harbour From Both Sides
“Hong Kong was chosen by the Englishmen as the location of their settlement with the kind of insight that’s typical for the British. The island on which northern side it is located is mountainous and has a circumference of about eighteen till twenty English miles. Its position has the advantage…
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