Af-riikka

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Af-riikka

Just another "my Africa" blog, which will be updated somewhat unfrequently, whenever possible. First stop: Grand Popo, Benin - second stop: Zanzibar ...

Latest posts on Af-riikka

Foreign countries, safe places
Posted 6 months ago

This post remained as a draft from June 2008 when I spent a month in Uppsala, at the library of the Nordic Africa Institute writing my Master's ...

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Return to the land of Teranga
Posted 6 months ago

This post was originally written in March 2011 when I visited Senegal to plan for a development cooperation project "Woomal 2" between the ...

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Sauna distancing
Posted 2 years ago

Today, the news was out: public saunas in Helsinki will be gradually re-opening after being closed for more than two months. During the recent ...

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Music of Bhutan
Posted 8 years ago

This post tries to briefly explain the little known various styles of Bhutanese music which you can hear blasting from the local radio stations every ...

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Food (= chillies) in Bhutan
Posted 9 years ago

"In Bhutan, chilli is not a spice. It is a vegetable."These were some of the wise words I was told during the flash introduction to ...

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Festival sideshows
Posted 9 years ago

Christmas, the most commercial religious holiday of all is approaching. One might think that the materialistic, carnevalistic celebration of ...

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Bhutan and Finland, part 1: Alcohol
Posted 9 years ago

Bhutanese people often ask how do I like Bhutan, adding that "it must be very different from your country". Actually, in many ways, it ...

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Shooting arrows
Posted 9 years ago

"The Bhutanese love archery. They also love drinking. They tend to combine their two passions, and this is worrying." Before coming to ...

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Arrival
Posted 9 years ago

After more than 24 hours of traveling, three different planes, 4 hours of waiting at the transfer lounge of New Delhi airport and one stop-over in ...

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Wonderland
Posted 9 years ago

In my mind, there can be no cooler country than one issuing postal stamps which are vinyl records that can actually be played! The stamps were issued ...

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