odds & ends from a Gambian bloggerTumblr (3.0; @cafetouba)http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromTheGambia/~3/913Nkt6cy6Y/pregnancy.html">The Pregnancy</a>: <p>1.<br/><br/><br/> This is how they start, the very first time he calls her, after he has taken her number:<br/><br/> - Hello.<br/> - Hello.<br/><br/> A pause, the sound of their breathing over the line.<br/><br/> - Heeey - yow what’re you…</p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2886684063http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2886684063Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:36:45 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lez8w9UTdN1qf6x0do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://tbwa.com/#lsi121ci5b0q">The Zimbabwean Trillion Dollar Campaign</a> - Great Advertising</p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2732288893http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2732288893Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:00:08 -0500advertisingzimbabwe“<p>When the very last grief</p> <p>BY VERA PAVLOVA</p> <p>When the very last grief<br/> deadens all our pain,<br/> I will follow you there<br/> on the very next train,<br/> not because I lack strength<br/> to ponder the end result,<br/> but maybe you forgot to bring<br/> pills, a necktie, razor blades . .</p>”http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2713073411http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2713073411Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:12:06 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromTheGambia/~3/lIIWN3uo_Os/ligaye.html">The Ligaye</a>: <p><div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">His Aunt went to see the Serign on Saturday. The Serign wrote his name down on white paper, with the blood of a goat. </span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br/></span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">And by the following Saturday he had gone mad.</span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br/></span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br/></span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br/></span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">It…</span></div> </div></p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2694568675http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2694568675Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:25:48 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le7hb1j13I1qf6x0do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.economist.com/node/17723124">Interesting article about Nollywood in The Economist</a> (we need to get started on Jolof-wood :))</p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2515941777http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2515941777Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:09:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldzomlxaFN1qf6x0do1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2458013094http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2458013094Sat, 25 Dec 2010 10:06:21 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromTheGambia/~3/4Dsi8FMXAaU/death-fiction.html">Death [FICTION]</a>: <p>4. Attached to her mother, she follows the woman everywhere. She understands two rules: being with her is good, being away from her is not. These are the only rules she needs to know.<br/><br/>16. Her first…</p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2426873103http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2426873103Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:30:21 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldqotdR4Zj1qz4cuyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://links.laughingsquid.com/post/2390384679/facebook-vs-twitter-a-breakdown-of-2010-social">laughingsquid</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://laughingsquid.com/facebook-vs-twitter/">Facebook vs. Twitter, A Breakdown of 2010 Social Demographics</a></p> </blockquote>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2393483452http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2393483452Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:50:03 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldp3wreV5q1qf6x0do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://africasacountry.com/2010/12/19/dakar-now/dakar-by-mimi-mollica/">Dakar Now</a></p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2378561573http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2378561573Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:02:51 -0500senegaldakarphotos“There is that great proverb—that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1720/the-art-of-fiction-no-139-chinua-achebe">Chinua Achebe, The Paris Review Interview</a></em>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2361384044http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2361384044Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:48:29 -0500“All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.”<br/><br/> - <em>E.B. White</em>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2361372926http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2361372926Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:47:20 -0500quotes<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GZ_2v0h-cS8?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Amazing stop-motion video</p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2360714792http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2360714792Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:37:17 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromTheGambia/~3/WTnV3uBN6IY/gambian-english.html">Gambian English</a>: <p>(A Post using words of not more than three syllables)</p> <p><br/></p> <p>Recently there was a very lively discussion on a friend’s wall. The said friend posted that he hated African journalists and assorted writing…</p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2358261776http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2358261776Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:02:33 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldln14lAPT1qf6x0do1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Google ngram viewer for “gambia”</p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2353626837http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2353626837Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:05:27 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromTheGambia/~3/n3MU3nHK1Nw/choosing-of-paths.html">The Choosing of the Paths</a>: <p>Path 1<br/><br/>She speaks in hushed tones, she is a beauty to behold.<br/><br/>When she feels pleasure - perhaps physical, perhaps of a mental kind - her face relaxes, it glows, from the top, downward, a waxing…</p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2326473263http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2326473263Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:49:02 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lde51m9scN1qz4cuyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://links.laughingsquid.com/post/2305536549/tech-support-care-package-for-parents" class="tumblr_blog">laughingsquid</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://laughingsquid.com/tech-support-care-package-for-parents/">Tech Support Care Package For Parents</a></p></blockquote>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2312622245http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2312622245Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:30:13 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lddyjkNBSV1qbcmtxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://scandinavianlostinankara.tumblr.com/post/2304194240/via-www-zorinweb-com-mozambique-fashion-week-2010" class="tumblr_blog">scandinavianlostinankara</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>via <a href="http://www.zorinweb.com/shadders/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Mozambique_fashion_week-ciaafrique6.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.zorinweb.com"></a><a href="http://www.zorinweb.com"><a href="http://www.zorinweb.com">www.zorinweb.com</a></a></p> <h1 class="entry-title">Mozambique Fashion Week 2010</h1></blockquote>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2312600418http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2312600418Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:26:38 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldf98nMehX1qf6x0do1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919">Facebook Connections Mapped </a></p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2312572739http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2312572739Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:21:58 -0500datavizFacebook<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldc2sbrO7O1qf6x0do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Wonjo with a sprinkling of Naana…</p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2190164133http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2190164133Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:09:44 -0500drinksgambia<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EfzuOu4UIOU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Hilarious book trailer</p>http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2170178981http://cafetouba.tumblr.com/post/2170178981Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:24:32 -0500BookstrailersFiction