Five years after our first visit to Uganda and its capital, we finally revisited Kampala in July – twice. Of course, it´s a characteristic African capital, which means that it has got a modern town centre as well as sheds, huts and slums as far as the eye can see – for probably close to […]
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Antananarivo – Tana par plaisir
Antananarivo, Madagascar´s capital with two to three million citizens who just call it Tana, has been marked as the world´s third most polluted city just behind leading Baku/Azerbaijan and Dhaka/Bangladesh in a Forbes-ranking in 2008. But there must have been some improvements ever since then. When it comes to air pollution I´ve seen worse in […]
Libreville – No way out
When you get off the plane as a northern or middle European in Libreville, it is like walking against a wall. It is the extreme humidity that hits you like a weight packed upon your chest. At least I felt so when we arrived at Libreville at half past seven in the evening, after a […]
Addis Ababa
Today, Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa is one of the fastest growing cities on earth with around 4.5 to 5 Million inhabitants. It has been Emperor Menelik II who had founded Addis Ababa in 1889 and made it the capital by moving from nearby Entoto hill down to the plains. But it was only after the […]
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