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		<title>A Dedicated Follower of Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I wrote here.  In the last few months, I&#8217;ve moved with my organization, Action Against Hunger (ACF) to Pakistan.  I&#8217;ve been asked to write a few blog entries for the Financial Times seasonal appeal for Action Against Hunger (www.ftagainsthunger.org).  Below is the last entry, before editing (which the newspaper will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africatrippin.com&amp;blog=4149205&amp;post=556&amp;subd=africatrippin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rules of Thumb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the years, I’ve found some simple tips/rules of thumb regarding being ‘out there.’  Some of the best are below: Imperial leather soap is the best for bucket showers because it washes off easily. If your mosquito net has holes, band-aids can close them. Don’t eat durians or have them with you on long flights/journeys.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africatrippin.com&amp;blog=4149205&amp;post=459&amp;subd=africatrippin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home To Roost</title>
		<link>http://africatrippin.com/2010/03/04/home-to-roost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working in a developing country is a window into international dialogue.  (I just got a semi from that amazing ‘first sentence…’)  This dialogue can sometimes seem to be not between nations of millions, but akin to the squawking and bellowing between lovers, friends, neighbors, mothers in law and other stereotypical ‘can’t live with’em, can’t do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africatrippin.com&amp;blog=4149205&amp;post=458&amp;subd=africatrippin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Partytime Excellent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick one: Lots of humanitarians go to lots of places for lots of reasons.  My second-largest pet peeve (after the first, which is people leaving bunched up wet towels to &#8216;dry&#8230;&#8217; THEY DON&#8217;T FUCKING DRY BUNCHED UP, DO THEY GOD DAMN IT&#8230;! see what I mean?) is humanitarian workers when they exhibit serious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africatrippin.com&amp;blog=4149205&amp;post=456&amp;subd=africatrippin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waving Duty &#8211; An obligation for survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve written in this blog and for that I do feel pretty badly.  Not that bad, but&#8230; bad enough. I&#8217;ve had this blog in my mind for months now, but it hasn&#8217;t wanted to to come out until now.  Recent events have made it more than relevant and necessary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africatrippin.com&amp;blog=4149205&amp;post=454&amp;subd=africatrippin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Artsy Anarchs</title>
		<link>http://africatrippin.com/2009/03/18/artsy-anarchs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, I was walking through downtown Athens, lovingly stepping over homeless dudes, heaps of garbage and sidestepping stones and Molotov cocktails.  Dodging a cop’s night-stick, my gaze fell on one of the gazillions of posters put up by ‘disgruntled youf’ in Greece.  By ‘disgruntled youf’ of course I mean unemployed/bored and/or slightly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africatrippin.com&amp;blog=4149205&amp;post=339&amp;subd=africatrippin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>«’Εχουμε γίνει Ουγκάντα&#8230;!»</title>
		<link>http://africatrippin.com/2009/03/17/%c2%ab%e2%80%99%ce%b5%cf%87%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bc%ce%b5-%ce%b3%ce%af%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%b9-%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%b3%ce%ba%ce%ac%ce%bd%cf%84%ce%b1%c2%bb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years and years, everyone’s older grandma and auntie from the ‘burbs in Greece would exclaim with horror the above, comparing Greek realities to that of Uganda in the 80’s and 90’s: Civil war, atrocities, insecurity and human suffering counted in the millions. It seems to me after one year of living in Uganda that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africatrippin.com&amp;blog=4149205&amp;post=338&amp;subd=africatrippin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t begrudge the band aids.</title>
		<link>http://africatrippin.com/2009/02/27/dont-begrudge-the-band-aids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine this: you’re a young boy, in your family&#8217;s kitchen, making coffee and realize you’re out of sugar. You step out the door to quickly borrow some from the neighboring family nextdoor… You walk up to the front door, but it’s ajar so, knowing the family a little, you step in. You walk down the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africatrippin.com&amp;blog=4149205&amp;post=328&amp;subd=africatrippin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Safari Weekend and the Fucking Week That Followed It</title>
		<link>http://africatrippin.com/2009/01/31/the-safari-weekend-and-the-fucking-week-that-followed-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I left Kampala on the 23rd of January.  The plan was to spend a three-day weekend with some colleagues and friends in Murchison National Park (FRI-SUN) and Monday head on off to our respective bases.  The ‘twist’ was that right after that I’d be staying up north carrying out a field visit to selected sites [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africatrippin.com&amp;blog=4149205&amp;post=313&amp;subd=africatrippin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musings of the Day</title>
		<link>http://africatrippin.com/2009/01/21/musings-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there it is.  The big day came and went.  Obama gave his speech, almost everyone cheered, and every channel in Africa was most certainly tuned into the event, cheering on the first black president of the US.  Not too shabby.  And, in my view, a nice turn of events with the speech not being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africatrippin.com&amp;blog=4149205&amp;post=292&amp;subd=africatrippin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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