Bumbire Island, Part IV – Looking For Josie

In this final chapter in our series, Christine Hamilton and I head off to a fishing settlement called Lushonga, in search of a woman named Josie, who suffers from an advanced case of AIDS.

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Bumbire Island – Part III, Kinagi

The third in a series of voicescapes from a visit to Bumbire Island, in Southwest Lake Victoria, Tanzania … Dale Hamilton and I travel to nearby Kinagi Island to visit a big fishing camp.

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Warm Wet Planet: Eighth Transmission … Economics

So-called “industrial economies” on Earth value money above all else, while squandering finite resources and poisoning their little blue-green planet.

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Bumbire Island – Part II

Bumbire Island sits on the northern tip of a sliver of an archipelago in southwest Lake Victoria, in Tanzania, East Africa. Nature on and around Bumbire is gorgeous—but the hardscrabble fishing camps scattered along its shores—and those of nearby rocky islets—are a different story.

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Bumbire Island – Part I, Arriving

Bumbire Island sits on the northern tip of a sliver of an archipelago in southwest Lake Victoria, Tanzania, East Africa. The islands are gorgeous—and strangely reminiscent of Newfoundland or similar maritime landscapes. But the hardscrabble fishing camps scattered across Bumbire and neighboring rocky islets are a different story.

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Arno

Here are sounds from a voyage undertaken with Marshall Islander Ben Chutaro and his friend Doug, way back in August 2007. The idea had been to go to Mili — I had been pressing Ben to take me there for ages, to see the marine/nature conservancy he was setting up — but weather ended up [...]

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Bottom Line

Melaku Worede

An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.

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