Before adopting I had no idea what ADHD, ADD, RAD, PTSD, or ODD meant. Well, for those who don’t know already, these are all mental disorders that can affect adults and children in different degrees. ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) for example, [...]

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Photo by Linda De Volder
Last year, when I was hiking the northern mountains of Ethiopia, I came across many native plants. For example the pretty famous and widely used in the west  aloe vera (eret in Amharic). This succulent plant seems to have originated in Northern Africa [...]

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A Maker Faire is and event where all kind of creative inventors gather to show their gadgets and projects. A few days ago the Maker Faire Africa 2012  took place in Lagos and young and old creators made public their inventions. Africans are extremely creative, and anyone [...]

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I was reading an article in The Guardian by Joshua Foer  saying that once he needed to learn Lingala, the language of an ethnic group in the Republic of Congo but his problem was that there were few resources to learn that particular language and that he didn’t have much time to do it. [...]

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