Killing a chicken or how I became no longer a fishtarian

The headless fowl kept twitching for what seemed to be at least ten minutes. As I was holding the brown chicken’s wings all kinds of thoughts ran though my head. How warm the animal I had just killed still was. How the blood did not gush as generously as I…

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Femke becomes Funke: ‘That’s not a discount, that’s an insult’

Admittedly, I was getting audacious. After watching Sola’s technique for almost two weeks, I thought I could pull it off. I had been studying his bargaining moves, how he cracked jokes in Yoruba at the right moment and pretended to be offended the next. So when he stepped out for…

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Things to remember

freelance africa web tv

Things to remember when/if you are approaching Africa Web TV to offer its services to you and your commercial activities for free: Please remember we got all of our equipments for free. Please remember when we travel to your events we travel for free. We got the car/bus/public transportation for…

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Africa has to be experienced

Iduwini women

Africa has to be experienced Most people would say that Africa is an abandoned place. A place of poverty, hunger and disaster. That people in Africa are stupid because they don’t step up to authorities, that they are being used. That they are stuck in history. That they should lose…

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Thanks to the ladies!

Thanks to the ladies We hoped for 500 likes by the end of 2012 on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/webtvafrica), you made it 531 (2 more “likes” came by already in 2013!). We hoped for 15,000 views by the end of 2012 on our Youtube channel (www.youtube.com/webtvafrica) , you made it…

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Femke becomes Funke: My Lagos househunt

1. Not to count my chickens before they are hatched. I learnt this the hard way when I was getting to an agent’s office two weeks ago to pay for a two bedroom apartment, only to find someone else had beaten me to it. I was this close to calling…

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Africa Web TV welcomes Blessing Njoh

Blessing Njoh

Africa Web TV welcomes Blessing Njoh You might have seen her already in some of our recent releases. Africa Web TV is proud to announce a new addition to its team. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome Blessing Njoh. She is a graduate of Aviation Engineering who as a child dreamt…

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Ego is a gift given to losers

One of the perks of being one of the people behind Africa Web TV is that one gets to meet inspirational and creative Africans. While one does not necessarily agree with the views of the people we meet, this does not mean we don’t draw inspiration from their passion and…

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Femke becomes Funke: An oyinbo’s guide to mastering Lagos traffic

This has to be done. You may accuse me of blatant plagiarism (an interesting habit in this country, however unfounded) of a certain Nigerian writer’s how to’s, but I’ve always been of the conviction that it is better to steal a good idea than to come up with a bad…

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Sierra Leone, palm wine musician Seydu

Have you ever been drunk on the palm wine music of Seydu? He is a musician from Sierra Leone whose entire life is dedicated to representing the Fulah culture. He was tutored by his grandfather, who was also a great performing artist. Seydu (1964) has an extraordinary story to tell.…

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