Travel to Africa to backpack, study, intern, volunteer, work,
or live as a digital nomad, expat or emigrant?
Backpacking in Africa?
- Africa is perhaps the continent where backpackers face the greatest challenges and experience the most beautiful adventures. More than in the other continents, you are often pulled completely out of your comfort zone and you travel as journeys were once intended.
- Characteristics: lots of adventure, lots of local contact, lots of music, lots of wildlife and sometimes some setbacks.
Travel in Africa?
- Nothing or no one can prepare you for the wonderful world of Africa. From the pyramids of Giza in the Egyptian desert to the annual migration of wildebeest in search of water in the Serengeti National Park (Tanzania). The trips with a Spotting nature: Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe, Zambia), the West African Sahara, the safari areas in East Africa, the surf spots of Guinea or South Africa.
- Spotting animals: from lions to elephants and from rhinos to penguins.
Internship and study in Africa?
- Studies: in principle, all subjects and forms of education can be found.
- Study and internship cities: Cairo, Cape Town, Kigali, Mombasa, Zanzibar.
- Internship competencies: patience, perseverance.
Volunteer work in Africa?
- Volunteer projects: mainly in the social sectors, education, healthcare and animal care.
- Animal projects: protection of monkeys, elephants, penguins, sea turtles, among others.
- Features: volunteer work possible from 1 or 2 weeks to several months.
Working in Africa?
- Jobs: temporary work can mainly be found in tourism and healthcare.
- Work competencies: involvement, empathy, patience, perseverance.
Working as a digital nomad in Africa?
- Favorite cities and islands: Cairo, Dahab (Egypt), Cape Town, Kigali (Rwanda), Marrakesh, Nairobi, Port Louis (Mauritius), Zanzibar (Tanzania).
Living in Africa?
- Language: English or French is spoken almost everywhere.
- Living environment: varies enormously per location, but in general life in some African countries is a bit more adventurous than in most other regions.
- Care in Africa: ask for advice about insurance policies that provide sufficient coverage for the right care and also repatriation in the event of an emergency.
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Dit hotel biedt een ontspannen verblijf met kamers die ingericht zijn in authentieke Zanzibarese/Arabische stijl. Opgericht door Nederlanders vanuit een stichting om de lokale economie te stimuleren.
Mooie en avontuurlijke excursies door de woestijn van Namibië. Deze woestijnen zijn één van de hoogtepunten van Namibië, een must-see! Tevens bescherm je met je geboekte tour het behoud van natuurreservaten in het gebied.
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Recipe: Kenyan chapati
- Add the flower, salt and if wanted 2 tablespoons of sugar to a big mixing bowl
- Stir the dry ingredients
- Add a fair amount, say 200 milliliters of the water to the bowl
- Mix the water and the dry ingredients with hand of with doughmixer
- Mix and add water untill a firm, moist, but non sticky dough exsists
- Add 2 tablespoons of oil to the mixture
- Knead dough for about 10 minutes, untill dough feels soft and elastic
- Cover the dough and let it rest for approximatly 1 hour
- After 1 hour cover the worksheet with flower, to prevent the dough from sticking to the surface, than split the dough and unroll it to a slice of 0,5-1cm thick
- Cover the topside of the slice with a fair amount of oil
- Slice the dough in stripes of 5 cm wide and 30 cm long, if the slice is shorter, dont bother just 'glue' 2 slices to make it one
- Roll up the slice with the oillayer faced in, tuck the end of the doughstripe in the middle
- When finished with all the small doughballs, let them rest again for 30 minutes
- After 30 minutes roll the doughballs out separatly untill they have the diameter of the pan you're going to bake them in
- A non stick pan works best for this recipe
- First bake all the chapati's in a smoking hot pan on both sides for 30 seconds or untill brown spots appear in the dough
- When all the chapati's are baked put the chapati's back in the pan, pay attention this is a quick movement
- Add oil on top of the chapati, about a tablespoon or until the top of the chapati is covered
- Quickly turn the oil side to the pan and whilst twisting the chapati to prevent it from burning, add oil to the other side
- Turn the chapati to let the other side bake
- Repeat this process with all the chapati's
Serves nice with beanstew, potatoe stew, meatstew but my alltime favorite lentilstew!
Ready In: 120 min.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of plain flour
- lukewarm water
- pinch of salt
- (optional) sugar
- sunflower oil
Recipe: Ugandan vegetable Samosas
This recipe is from: blog.ssekodesigns.com
I didn't try to make them myself yet, but i ate lots of Samosas in Uganda and they absolutely were my favourite Ugandan food!!
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Heat the oil in a small nonstick pan. Add the mustard seeds and fry for about ten seconds, or until they begin to splutter.
Add the onion and ginger, and cook for 2 to 3 minutes over a high heat. Add the peas, and stir well. Add the coriander, cumin, chile powder, garam masala, salt to taste, and a splash of water. Cook for 1 to 2 minutes, and then add the potatoes, and cilantro, and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes. Taste the mixture and adjust the seasoning as necessary.
Unroll the phyllo pastry dough, cover with plastic wrap and a damp tea or kitchen towel. Peel off one sheet and keep the rest covered so that it doesn't dry out. Lay the pastry sheet flat on a clean surface, and brush with melted butter. Fold in one third of the pastry lengthwise towards the middle. Brush again with the butter and fold in the other side to make a long triple-layered strip.
Place one rounded teaspoon of the filling mixture at one end of the strip, leaving a 1-inch border. Take the right corner and fold diagonally to the left, enclosing the filling and forming a triangle. Fold again along the upper crease of the triangle. Keep folding in this way until you reach the end of the strip. Brush the outer surface with more butter. Place the triangle onto a baking sheet and cover while you make the rest of the samosas. Bake in the center of the oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until golden and crisp, turning halfway through the cooking time.
Enjoy!
Ready in: 50 min.
Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 2 ½ ounces chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger
- 2 ½ ounces peas
- 1 tablespoon coriander
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- ¼ teaspoon red chile powder
- ½ to ¾ teaspoon garam masala
- pinch of kosher salt
- splash of water
- 1 lb and 5 ounces potatoes
- peeled
- boiled until soft and crushed into large lumps
- 4 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 package frozen phyllo pastry dough
- thawed
- 5 tablespoons melted butter
- for brushing
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Quotes & statements from around Africa by country and contention (the twelve elements of contentment) - Africa
Quotes & statements from around Africa by country and contention (the twelve elements of contentment)
- Self-awareness & Self-insight
- Independency & Steadfastness
- Limitlessness & Freedom
- Usefulness & Meaning
- Experience & Feeling alive
- Helpfulness & Attentiveness
- Engagement & Sense of surroundings
- Goal Orientation & Sense of perspective
- Balance & Stability
- Result awareness & Positivity
- Connectivity & Contacts
- Attention & Focus
Self-awareness & Self-insight
- We are what our thinking makes us: Nigeria.
- Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand: Guinea.
- Those who are happy at home should remain at home.
Independency & Steadfastness
- Examine what is said, not him who speaks: Egypt.
Limitlessness & Freedom
- Happiness often sneaks through your door when you left the door open.
- Dance even if the hump on your back does not allow you.
Usefulness & Meaning
- Ubuntu: I am a person through other people. (Zulu)
- Desmond Tutu said: “One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu, the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. We believe that a person is a person through other persons.. It is a form of humanism which can be expressed
- "I am, like because of who we all are." Ubuntu signifies emphatically that: “The life of another person is at least as valuable as one’s own,” and that “Respect for the dignity of every person is integral to this concept.”
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Experience & Feeling alive
- Those who are absent are always wrong: Congo.
Helpfulness & Attentiveness
- Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
Engagement & Sense of surroundings
- Happiness is like a perfume, you cannot pour it all on others without allowing a few drops to fall on yourself.
- The chameleon changes color to match the earth; the earth doesn’t change colors to match the chameleon: Senegal.
Goal Orientation & Sense of perspective
- The big game often appears when the hunter has given up the hunt for the day.
- The chameleon looks in all directions before moving: Uganda.
- Anxious about the shoe, but careless about the foot.
Balance & Stability
- If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?
- Who swims never sinks.
Result awareness & Positivity
- There are no shortcuts to the top of the palm tree: Cameroon.
Connectivity & Contacts
- Lonely is one: Masai.
- Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow.
Attention & Focus
- Coffee and love taste best when hot: Ethiopia.
- He who learns teaches: Ethiopia.
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1. What are the issues to bear in mind when emigrating?
- Keep track of the emigration process; for example write down what to do and what you are going through in an emigration diary.
- Make use of the media and guidebooks when researching possible destinations.
- Get an i...
Quotes & statements from around Africa by country and contention (the twelve elements of contentment)
- Self-awareness & Self-insight
- Independency & Steadfastness
- Limitlessness & Freedom
- Usefulness & Meaning
- Experience & Feeling ali...
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo DRC
- Congo-Brazzaville
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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